| Description |
1 online resource (432 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Cover; List of Plates ; Map of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918; Map of Janáček's Railway Journeys ; Appendices. |
| Summary |
These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janáçek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at Luhaçovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six, the wife of an antique dealer frequently away from home. After the holiday, Janáçek began writing to Stösslová. Undeterred by her lack of interest in his work and her spasmodic replies, he continued to send her letters until his death eleven years later. An extraordinarily self-revealing portrait emerges of an isolated artist at the height of his creative p. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Correspondence.
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Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935 -- Correspondence.
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Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935. |
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Composers -- Czech Republic -- Correspondence.
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Composers. |
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Czech Republic. |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Tyrrell, John, 1942-2018.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Janácek, Leos. Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400863686 (electronic book) |
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1400863686 (electronic book) |
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