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Leoš Janáček, son of schoolmaster Jiří Janacek (1815–1866) and Amalie (née Grulichová) Janáčková (1819–1884), was born in Hukvaldy, Moravia (then part of the Austrian Empire) on 3 July 1854. [3] He was born with six surviving siblings, and baptised as Leo Eugen. [4] He was a gifted child in a family of limited means, and showed an ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Leoš Janáček (born July 3, 1854, Hukvaldy, Moravia, Austrian Empire—died Aug. 12, 1928, Ostrava, Czech.) was a composer, one of the most important exponents of musical nationalism of the 20th century. Janáček was a choirboy at Brno and studied at the Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna conservatories. In 1881 he founded a college of organists at ...
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Leoš Janáček was born on 3 July 1854 in Hukvaldy, the ninth of fourteen children, to the Hukvaldy teacher Jiří Janáček and his wife Amálie, née Grulichová.When recalling his childhood he mentioned the school in Hukvaldy, his father's beehives, the Babí hora hill and the church gallery where he sang at ceremonial masses.
Leoš Janáček (3. července 1854 Hukvaldy – 12. srpna 1928 Moravská Ostrava) byl český skladatel klasické hudby. Přestože patřil do generace české hudební moderny, jeho styl se vyznačoval značnou osobitostí a originalitou.
- Leo Eugen Janáček
Leoš Janáček is the most frequently performed Czech opera composer in the world, and according to the Operabase statistics, belongs to 20 most frequently performed opera composer at all. From 2004 until the end of 2020 alone there were more than 3300 performances of Janáček's operas in both European theatres as well as in New York, Tokyo ...
Died. August 12, 1928. Country. Czechia. Born in Hukvaldy, Moravia (part of 20th Century Czechoslovakia), in 1854, Leoš Janáček is considered the greatest Czech composer of the early 20th Century. He was the son of a schoolmaster and, as a boy, sang in the choir of the monestery in Brno. He later went to Prague to study music and made a ...
Introducing Leoš Janáček. Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) was a Czech composer whose works rank among the most progressive compositions written in the 20th century. He’s known as personality who was significantly ahead of his time and brought innovative procedures and approaches to musical composition. Folk masters – Pskov blacksmiths ...
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