{"product_id":"janacek-years-of-a-life-volume-1-1854-1914","title":"Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914)","description":"John Tyrrell's biography of the Leos Jan�cek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Jan�cek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Jan�cek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Jan�cek's life in any language and offers new views of Jan�cek as composer, writer, thinker and human being.  Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Jan�cek's sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Jan�cek's life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences ('Music as autobiography I', etc.; 'Jan�cek's knowledge of opera I', etc.) and individual chapters on Jan�cek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Charpentier's Louise), on his mentors (such as Anton�n Dvor�k) and his b�tes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Jan�cek's 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 Jan�cek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Jan�cek's earnings and finances by Dr Jir� Zahr�dka (curator of the Jan�cek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of S�rka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40695285252181,"sku":"9780571175383N","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/ab036d38-ecb2-45ea-960c-def24fddfa7b.jpg?v=1695631213","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/janacek-years-of-a-life-volume-1-1854-1914","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}