{"product_id":"janacek-v-1-9780571175383","title":"Janacek (v. 1)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanacek (v. 1)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Tyrell, John. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780571175383.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Tyrrells biography of the Leos Jancek is the culmination of a lifes work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janceks operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Jancek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Janceks life in any language and offers new views of Jancek as composer, writer, thinker and human being. Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Janceks sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Janceks life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences (Music as autobiography I, etc.; Janceks knowledge of opera I, etc.) and individual chapters on Jancek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovskys Queen of Spades, Charpentiers Louise), on his mentors (such as Antonn Dvork) and his btes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Janceks health by Dr Stephen Lock (one of the editors of the Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, OUP 1994 and 2001, editor of the British Medical Journal, 1975-91, and a Jancek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Janceks earnings and finances by Dr Jir Zahrdka (curator of the Jancek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of Srka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987077820469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0571175384","price":61.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780571175383_12d6bdac-ed49-4418-a621-97ac080e0f8a.jpg?v=1778826142","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/janacek-v-1-9780571175383","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}