Janáček
Americannoun
noun
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Further afield, Czech composer Janáček wrote a stunning tone poem after the Ukrainian Cossack protagonist of Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol’s Russian novel “Taras Bulba.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022
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
Momenta String Quartet concert A performance of works by Janáček and other composers.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2014
The car radio was playing a piano piece by the Czech composer Janáček, “In the Mists.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 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
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