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Kamila Stösslová ( née Neumannová; 1891–1935) was a Czech woman. The composer Leoš Janáček, upon meeting her in 1917 in the Moravian resort town of Luhačovice, fell deeply in love with her, despite the fact that both of them were married, and that he was almost forty years older than she was.
Janáček to Kamila Stösslová. Towards the end of his life, the Czech composer Leos Janáček fell in love with a much younger woman called Kamila. The letters they exchanged inspired the composers quartet 'Intimate Letters'. 9 images. See the full gallery: Heart-breaking quotations from the great composers' love letters. See more Discover music.
While his international fame continued to grow, it is worth remembering that three of his last four operas are intimately connected with Kamila Stösslová, a simple and uninhibited peasant woman. Kamila Stösslová, 1917. Janáček was a married man of 63 and Kamila a married woman of 25 when they met in a Moravian spa in the summer of 1917.
Download. XML. These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos JanáÃ"çek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at LuhaÃ"çovice, a ...
Janáček's string quartets were borne from his love for Kamila Stösslová—a married woman nearly forty years his junior, whom the composer met while spending the summer of 1917 in the Moravian resort town of Luhačovice.
However, undoubtedly the most important woman in Janáček's life (besides, of course, his wife Zdeňka) was Kamila Stösslová. Cheerful, uncomplicated, twenty-eight years younger, Kamila had been his real muse and friend since 1917. Janáček's relationship with her is one of the answers to the question of his incredibly productive "great old ...
In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janáçek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at Luhaçovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six,...
