Czech composer (1854–1928)
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He built a modern musical language from transcribed speech rhythms and Moravian folk songs — a synthesis so strange and specific it took Prague until 1916 to notice, and the rest of the world longer still.
Born in Hukvaldy in 1854, Janáček studied in Brno, Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna before settling back in Brno, where he married his pupil Zdenka Schulzová and buried himself in folkloristic research. His early work shadowed Dvořák, but around the turn of the century he began weaving in his transcriptions of spoken "speech melodies" and Slavic folk material into something new. The death of his daughter Olga in 1903 reshaped his output; the opera Jenůfa premiered in Brno the following year. Prague ignored him for over a decade, until a revised Jenůfa at the National Theatre in 1916 finally opened…
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The melodic curves of speech are an expression of the complete organism and of all phases of its spiritual activities.
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