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John Tyrrell's biography of the Leoš Janácek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janácek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Janácek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Janácek's life in any language and offers new views of Janácek as composer, writer, thinker and human being.
Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Janácek's sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Janácek's life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences ('Music as autobiography I', etc.; 'Janácek's knowledge of opera I', etc.) and individual chapters on Janácek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Charpentier's Louise), on his mentors (such as Antonín Dvorák) and his bêtes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Janácek's health by Dr Stephen Lock (one of the editors of the Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, OUP 1994 and 2001, editor of the British Medical Journal, 1975-91, and a Janácek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Janácek's earnings and finances by Dr Jirí Zahrádka (curator of the Janácek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of Šárka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).
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John Tyrrell is Professor of Music at Cardiff University. His books include Czech Opera, Janácek's Operas and editions of the memoirs of Janácek's widow and Janácek's correspondence with Kamila Stösslová . He is co-author of the standard catalogue of Janácek's works and, with Sir Charles Mackerras, he edited Janácek's opera Jenufa. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Masaryk University of Brno for his work on Janácek and Czech music.
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My note on volume 2 indicates just how exceptional I think this book is. Janacek's life divides quite neatly and while vol. 2 is obviously busier and better-documented, vol. 1 is a wonderful run-up to it, through all those years in provincial Brno, via, rather surprisingly, being taught by Gregor Mendl . . . there isn't a dull chapter anywhere and the notes etc. are exhaustive. A great book!
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The last music biog I read was the wonderful multi-volume La Grange life of Mahler and while I may be slightly less of a Janacek nut than a Mahler nut I'm happy to say that John Tyrrell's work is equally as enthralling and engaging. Janacek is a less loveable figure than the mighty Gustav,something of a difficult sod, in fact, particularly in relation to his wife, but has a similarly astonishing work-rate that emphasises the perspiration percentage in genius. As in La Grange, Tyrrell also evokes the whole context of the composer's life, so the reader is sucked absorbingly into the busy world of Moravian music-making in the late 19th and early 20th century, with something of interest on every page. Meanwhile, the second volume has just arrived, and I am rubbing my hands in anticipation...
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