- Title
- Wagnerism in Moravia: Janácek's first opera, 'Sárka'
- Creator
- Ewans, Michael
- Relation
- Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands p. 119-135
- Relation
- http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462262
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The early training that Leos Janácek (1854-1928) received in his home city of Brno had been almost entirely confined to choral and instrumental music. While he was a student, there was no Czech-language theatre, and as a fanatical nationalist, he refused to set foot in Brno's German-language theatre. When he went to study in Leipzig (1879-80), he chose to go to concerts rather than to operas. But in 1883 his interest widened to opera; he was then living and studying in Prague, and he devoured as many operas as he could. The next year, the first Czech-language theatre (The 'Provisional Theatre') was opened in Brno; and only a week after the initial performances in December 1884 Janacek announced the first issue of the periodical Hudebni listy [Musical Pages], founded specifically to comment on the new operatic repertory in Brno. He edited it for the next four years, and apart from musicological articles, he wrote reviews of all the opera and operetta performances at the theatre. These opened his eyes fully to the medium, and very soon he was studying scores by a wide variety of composers, including Smetana and Wagner. After a study and critique of Tristan und Isolde in 1885 he declared Wagner to be among the most important of all opera composers.
- Subject
- Richard Wagner; Leos Janácek; opera; Prague
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053679
- Identifier
- uon:15649
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781409462262
- Language
- eng
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