Janáček

American  

[yah-nah-chek] / ˈjɑ nɑˌtʃɛk /

noun

1. Leoš 1854–1928, Czech composer.

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Janáček British  

/ ˈjanaːtʃɛk /

noun

1. Leoš (ˈlɛɔʃ). 1854–1928, Czech composer. His music is influenced by Czech folksong and speech rhythms and is remarkable for its integration of melody and language. His works include the operas Jenufa (1904) and The Cunning Little Vixen (1924), the Glagolitic Mass (1927), as well as orchestral and chamber music and songs

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Janáček

Michael Goldstein, one of Pinter’s childhood best friends and a lifelong intellectual interlocutor, put Pinter onto the composer Leoš Janáček, whose string quartet “Intimate Letters” tries to mimic spoken Czech.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Janáček, Schoenberg, and the majority of postwar composers never produced a full-scale Beethovenian symphony.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2015

Jonathan Biss plays Schumann, Janáček and Berg Wigmore Hall, London, W1 Starts 22 May Venue details People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013

Pavel Haas was a star pupil of Janáček and already an established composer when he arrived at the Terezín ghetto in 1941.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010

Among the inmates was a star pupil of Leoš Janáček; another was one of the most promising composers from the circle of Arnold Schoenberg.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010