Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova

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Label

Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova

Title remainder

Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova

Creator

• Janácek, Leos

Contributor

• Tyrrell, John

Subject

• MUSIC -- Genres & Styles | Classical
• MUSIC -- Reference
• Composers -- Czech Republic -- Correspondence
• Composers
• MUSIC -- History & Criticism
• Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 -- Correspondence
• Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928
• Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935
• Stösslová, Kamila, 1891-1935 -- Correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Czech Republic

Genre

• Correspondence
• Records and correspondence

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Princeton legacy library

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

780.92

Index

no index present

LC call number

ML410.J18

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Princeton Legacy Library