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Janacek: Years of a Life. Volume I (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Janacek: Years of a Life. Volume I (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird.(Book review)

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Janacek: Years of a Life. Volume I (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird. By John Tyrrell. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2006. [xxix, 771 p. ISBN-10 0-5711-7538-4; ISBN-13 978-0-5711-7538-3. [pounds sterling]60.] Illustrations, music examples, indexes, notes, bibliography.

In this hefty volume of over 800 pages, Janacek's life is examined vis-a-vis archival sources unavailable to most readers. John Tyrrell's detailed chronological account of Janacek's life up to World War I includes chapters that familiarize the reader with events, places, people, and concepts related to the composer. Sources throughout are painstakingly documented, a great improvement over well-known standard Janacek biographies, such as that by Jaroslav Vogel's Leos Janacek: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981).

Most readers know but one Janacek; the aged composer of operas such as Kat'a Kabanova and the Makropolous Case. This volume...

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