Intimate Letters : Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslová

432 Pages·1994·40.737 MB·English

by  Leoš Janáček, John Tyrrell

Intimate Letters

Intimate Letters
LEOS JANACEK
TO KAMILA STOSSLOVA
edited and translated by
John Tyrrell
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
©John Tyrrell, 1994
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Original Czech text transcribed and edited by
Vltava Pnbänovä as Hadanka hvota: dopisy Leose jandcka Kamile Stösslove
(Brno, Opus musicum, 1990) © Opus musicum and Svatava Pnbänovä 1990
Translated by permission of DILLA, Prague
Typography by Humphrey Stone
Photoset by Parker Typesetting Service, Leicester
Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic
John Tyrrell is hereby identified as the author of this work
in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Janäcek, Leos, 1854—1928.
[Correspondence. English. Selections]
Intimate letters, Leos Janäcek to Kamila Stösslovä / edited and
translated by John Tyrrell,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-691-03648-9 (cloth)
i. Janäcek, Leos, 1854-1928—Correspondence. 2. Stösslovä,
Karrnla, 1891-1935—Correspondence. 3. Composers—Czechoslovakia-
Correspondence. I. Stösslovä, Kamila, 1891-1935. II. Tyrrell
John. III. Title.
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[B) 93-38365
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TO SVATAVA PRIBANOVA
JANA KUCHTOVA
AND JIM FRIEDMAN

Contents
List of Plates ix
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
Map of Bohemia and Moravia in 1918 xvii
Map of Janâcek's Railway Journeys xviii
THE LETTERS I
Epilogue 341
Glossary of Names, Places, Works and Topics 345
Diary of Meetings 365
APPENDICES
1 The History of Janâcek's Letters to Kamila Stôsslovâ,
by Svatava Pfibânovâ 371
2 Civil Court in Brno: Janâcek against Janâckovâ,
by Richard Klos 374
Note on Sources 378
Bibliography 379
General Index 384
Index of Janâcek's Works 395

List of Plates
(between pages no and HI)
1 Kamila Stösslovä and her son Otto aged one (1917).
2 Kamila Stösslovä and her son Otto in regional costume (1918).
3 Janäcek with Rudolf and Otto Stössel (C1927).
4 Leos Janäcek in Luhacovice (1917).
5 Kamila Stösslovä in Luhacovice (1927).
6 Kamila Stösslovä with ornamental tree in her home at Pferov (1918).
7 Leos Janäcek out walking during his last summer in Luhacovice (1928).
8 Jacket design for Balhar's guide to Luhacovice (1914).
9—12 Luhacovice (1927): Kamila Stösslovä in company (9), with Janäcek
(10), alone (11) and with her husband (12).
13 Luhacovice: main square (1907).
14 Luhacovice: main square during a promenade concert (1927).
15 Luhacovice: the Augustinian House, where Janäcek usually stayed.
16 Luhacovice: Aloiska, one of the town's mineral-water springs.
17 Luhacovice: Mrs Gutovä's 'dairy', a vegetarian restaurant where Janäcek
and Stösslovä ate in August 1927.
x 8 Kamila Stösslovä and David Stössel (1917).
19 Kamila Stösslovä and David Stössel, with dog (1926).
(between pages 270 and 271)
20 ZdenkaJanäckovä (1924).
21 Gabriela Horvätovä as Eve in E.F. Burian's opera Before Sunrise (1925).
22 Kamila Stösslovä (1927).
23 Janäcek in Pisek with the violin teacher Otakar Sevcik and his American
pupil Arthur Bennett Lipkin (1927).
24 The Janäceks and the Stössels in Pisek (1925).
25 Janäcek at the entrance to the Mozart house in Prague, the Bertramka
(1928).
26 Janäcek and the Stössels with Dr Vlastimil Blazek during a visit to the
Bertramka (1928).
27 Janäcek's Hukvaldy cottage, acquired at the end of 1921.
28 The 'Hotel-Pension Karel IV.', where Janäcek regularly stayed during his
visits to Prague.
29 A Hukvaldy postcard (C1930S).
30 A Brno postcard issued in 1928 during Janäcek's lifetime.
31 The French restaurant in Brno where Janäcek wished to take Kamila
Stösslovä in 1927.
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