Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova.

Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova.

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Author / Creator:Janácek, Leos.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (432 pages)
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Subject:
Janáček, Leoš, -- 1854-1928 -- Correspondence.
Stösslová, Kamila, -- 1891-1935 -- Correspondence.
Janáček, Leoš, -- 1854-1928.
Stösslová, Kamila, -- 1891-1935.
Composers -- Czech Republic -- Correspondence.
Composers.
Czech Republic.
Electronic books.
Personal correspondence.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275524
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Other authors / contributors:Tyrrell, John.
ISBN:9781400863686
1400863686
Notes:Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Janácek, Leos. Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014

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