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Intimate Letters - Leos Jana'ek to Kamila Stosslova
Janacek, Leos; Tyrrell, John
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Description for Intimate Letters - Leos Jana'ek to Kamila Stosslova
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AV. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 27000.
These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janacek met Kamila Stosslova while on holiday at Luhacovice, 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, Janacek began writing to Stosslova. 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 powers ... Read more
These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janacek met Kamila Stosslova while on holiday at Luhacovice, 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, Janacek began writing to Stosslova. 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 powers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691636924
SKU
V9780691636924
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Reviews for Intimate Letters - Leos Jana'ek to Kamila Stosslova
"He was 63 and had been unhappily married. She was 25 and apparently dully, indifferently married. His infatuation was immediate and continued at high convection until his death 11 years later. His love was neither reciprocated nor consummated and she seldom even responded to his epistolary bombardment, yet most of his greatest music is about her. The letters are wonderful."
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