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Leo Eugen Janáček

Also Known As: "Leoš Janáček"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hukvaldy, Frýdek-Místek, Moravskoslezský kraj, Czech Republic
Death: August 12, 1928 (74)
Moravská Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Place of Burial: Hřbitov Brno - ústřední, Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
Immediate Family:

Son of Jiří Janáček and Amalie Janáčková
Husband of Zdenka Janáčková
Father of Olga Janáčková and Vladimír Janáček
Brother of Victorie Červenková; Josefa Janáčková; Róza Janáčková; Bedřich Janáček; František Janáček and 3 others

Occupation: Music pedagogue, Music Theorist, Composer, Publicist
Managed by: Philipp E. Kafka
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About Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical 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.

In the following years, Janáček became frustrated with a lack of recognition from Prague, but this was finally relieved by the success of a revised edition of Jenůfa at the National Theatre in 1916, which gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen, the Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, two string quartets, and other chamber works. Many of Janáček's later works were influenced by Czech and Russian literature, his pan-Slavist sentiments, and his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová.

After his death in 1928, Janáček's work was heavily promoted on the world opera stage by the Australian conductor Charles Mackerras, who also restored some of his compositions to their original, unrevised forms. In his homeland he inspired a new generation of Czech composers including several of his students. Today he is considered one of the most important Czech composers, along with Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana.

O Leošovi Janáčkovi (čeština)

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Birth: http://digi.archives.cz/da/permalink?xid=be86215a-f13c-102f-8255-00... (Zemský archiv v Opavě, fond: : Sbírka matrik Severomoravského kraje, NAD: 165, inventární číslo: 1508, signatura archivu: P XIa 1, typ matriky: katolická židovská , původce: Hukvaldy, římskokat. f. ú., obsah svazku: N • 1792-1891 , časový rozsah: 1792 - 1891. místo uloženi: ZA v Opavě. In: Digitální archiv Zemského archivu v Opavě - Matriky [online databáze]. Zemský archiv v Opavě, ©2020, poslední aktualizace: 2020-05-16, [cit. 2020-06-07, 09:57 EST])

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Leoš Janáček's Timeline

1854
July 3, 1854
Hukvaldy, Frýdek-Místek, Moravskoslezský kraj, Czech Republic
1882
August 15, 1882
Brno, Czech Republic
1888
May 16, 1888
1928
August 12, 1928
Age 74
Moravská Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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Hřbitov Brno - ústřední, Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic