Šárka is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by Julius Zeyer, based on Bohemian legends of Šárka in Dalimil's Chronicle. Written...
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character in The Maidens' War Šárka (Fibich), an opera by Zdeněk Fibich Šárka (Janáček), the first opera by Leoš Janáček Šárka, the third symphonic poem of...
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distinctive scoring. The critical edition of Janáček's scores is published by the Czech Editio Janáček. Janáček belongs to a wave of twentieth-century composers...
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D-flat major chords (Janáček's favourite chord), but with the added dissonance of an E-flat. Havlík, Jaromír (2000). Leoš Janáček/Vítězslav Novák: String...
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Saint-Saëns, 1877 Il Sant'Alessio, Landi, 1632 The Saracen, Cui, 1899 Šárka, Janáček, 1925 Satyagraha, Glass, 1980 The Scarecrow, Turrin, 2006 The Scarlet...
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Simeone, John Tyrrell, and Alena Němcová, Janáček's Works: A Catalogue of the Music and Writings of Leoš Janáček (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). The correct...
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Glagolitic Mass (category Choral compositions by Leoš Janáček)
contralto, tenor, bass), double chorus, organ and orchestra by Leoš Janáček. Janáček completed the work in 1926. It received its premiere by the Brno Arts...
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brass players) by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. It is dedicated "To the Czechoslovak Army" and Janáček said it was intended to express "contemporary...
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Šárka, which appears in 14th-century Czech literature, is related to that of Smetana's tone poem Má vlast and the opera of the same name by Janáček....
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From the House of the Dead (category Operas by Leoš Janáček)
of the Dead (Czech: Z mrtvého domu) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček. The libretto was translated and adapted by the composer from the 1862...
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Jenůfa (category Operas by Leoš Janáček)
than 70 years passed before audiences again heard it in Janáček's original version. Janáček wrote an overture to the opera, but decided not to use it...
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Osud) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer and Fedora Bartošová. Janáček began the work in 1903 and completed it...
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free with the varied sonic factors typical of Janáček, including his characteristic modal inflections. Janáček, Leoš: String Quartet No. 1. Urtext. Praha:...
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on Zeyer's play Radúz and Mahulena. Leoš Janáček used his theater play about a Czech mythical heroine Šárka as a libretto for his opera. Pynsent, R.B...
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On an Overgrown Path (category Piano compositions by Leoš Janáček)
is a cycle of fifteen piano pieces written by Leoš Janáček and organized into two volumes. Janáček composed all his most important works for solo piano...
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Káťa Kabanová (category Operas by Leoš Janáček)
Katja, Katya, and Kabanowa) is an opera in three acts, with music by Leoš Janáček to a libretto by the composer based on The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky...
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Luhačovice only on some days, thus giving Janáček opportunities to converse with Kamila.[citation needed] Janáček arrived in the resort on 3 July 1917 (he...
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Taras Bulba (rhapsody) (redirect from Taras Bulba (Janacek))
orchestra by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. It was composed between 1915 and 1918 and is one of the most famous of Janáček's works. It is based on the novel...
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did the men know that Šárka and the maidens had put a sleeping potion into the mead. When all the men had fallen asleep, Šárka blew the horn as a signal...
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The Cunning Little Vixen (category Operas by Leoš Janáček)
Vixen Sharp-Ears in English), is a three-act Czech-language opera by Leoš Janáček completed in 1923 to a libretto the composer himself adapted from a novella...
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composition by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The composition was written in first months of 1925, but Janáček decided on its inception in the end of...
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(Intimní skici) is a collection of piano miniatures by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) published in 1994, sixty-six years after his death. The thirteen...
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the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The work was written in the autumn of 1926 and is remarkable not just in the context of Janáček's output, but it also occupies...
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Pohádka (redirect from Pohádka (Janáček))
Tale) is a chamber composition for cello and piano by Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Pohádka is based on an epic poem by the Russian author Vasily Zhukovsky...
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heroines in Adriana Lecouvreur, La Gioconda, Libuše, Zdeněk Fibich's Šárka, Janáček's Šárka, Suor Angelica, Tosca, and Turandot among others. In November 2009...
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work of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854–1928). It was written in the summer of 1914, but it was not Janáček’s first attempt to create such a composition...
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In Search of Janáček (Czech: Hledání Janáčka) is a film about the life of composer Leoš Janáček. The film, written and directed by Petr Kaňka, received...
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achievements, he premiered four of Leoš Janáček's operas: Káťa Kabanová (1921) The Cunning Little Vixen (1924) Šárka (Janáček's first opera, composed 1887 but...
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The Makropulos Affair (opera) (category Operas by Leoš Janáček)
Makropulos) is a Czech opera in 3 acts, with music and libretto by Leoš Janáček. Janáček based his opera on the play Věc Makropulos by Karel Čapek. Composed...
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by Gioachino Rossini, National Theatre Brno (Mahen Theatre) 2010 Šárka by Leoš Janáček, National Theatre Ostrava 2010 Ariane by Bohuslav Martinů, National...
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