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Leoš Janáček
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Czech composer (1854–1928)
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Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) was a Czech composer, musicologist, pedagogue, and conductor. Born in Hukvaldy, he was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. His notable works include the operas *Jenůfa*, *The Cunning Little Vixen*, *Káťa Kabanová*, and *The Makropulos Affair*. He played the organ and taught students such as Rudolf Firkušný and Jaroslav Kvapil.
Janáček held citizenship in the Austrian Empire and Czechoslovakia. He died of pneumonia in Ostrava, Moravská Ostrava, and was buried in Brno Central Cemetery. His musical output is categorized within classical music and opera genres.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1854
- Died
- 1928
- Works
- 159
Top works
- Korespondence Leoše Janáčka s libretisty Výletu Broučkových
- Korespondence Leoše Janáčka s Otakarem Ostrčilem
- Obrátit
- Pohled do života i díla
- [Pro pár jablek
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Film & TV
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1854
- Active to
- 1928
Discography
- String Quartets Nos. 1 and 21964
- Glagolská mše1966
- Janáček: Sinfonietta / Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses1969
- Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba1971
- Glagolitic Mass1976
- Leoš Janáček: Amarus / Josef Suk: Under The Apple-Tree1976
- Male Choruses1978
- Mša glagolskaja1980
- String Quartets no. 1 & no. 21981
- Taras Bulba - Danze Slave - Danze Ungheresi1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 230,434
- Total plays
- 1,592,268
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Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 in Hukvaldy – 12 August 1928 in Ostrava) was a Czech composer. He was inspired by the broader field of Slavic folk music, weaving it into some of his greatest compositons: his Sinfonietta, Glagolitic Mass, Taras Bulba, string quartets and operas. Janáček is generally recognised as an inimitable composer, and one of his country's foremost talents. Janáček, the son of a schoolmaster, sang as a boy in the choir of the monastery in Brno. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Land-use changes and their social driving forces in Czechia in the 19th and 20th centuries
· 2001 · cited 245x
- The interplay between biological and physical scenarios of bacterial death induced by non-thermal plasma
· 2016 · cited 170x
- Embraced by eIF3: structural and functional insights into the roles of eIF3 across the translation cycle
· 2017 · cited 164x
- Spectral characterization and comparison of humic acids isolated from some European lignites
· 2018 · cited 152x
- Selective Translation Complex Profiling Reveals Staged Initiation and Co-translational Assembly of Initiation Factor Complexes
· 2020 · cited 151x
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Leoš Janáček, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Leoš Janáček ( Czech: [ˈlɛoʃ ˈjanaːtʃɛk] ; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style.
Born in Hukvaldy, Janáček demonstrated musical talent at an early age and was educated in Brno, Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna. He then returned to live in Brno, where he married his pupil Zdenka Schulzová and devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research. His earlier musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák, but around the turn of the century he began to incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music, as well as his transcriptions of "speech melodies" of spoken language, to create a modern, highly original synthesis. The death of his daughter Olga in 1903 had a profound effect on his musical output; these notable transformations were first evident in the opera Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera"), which premiered in 1904 in Brno.
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