UEV_35 Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928) – lesson 1/3

                                                                          Fri 1 Nov 2024 at 10 a.m.


                                                                              Introducing ourselves


General topics:

- Czech nationalism in the 19th and 20ieth centuries, „long“ 19th century, Viennese Congress,
national revival

Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821-1856), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937)

- being a teacher in the 19th century

- Brno in the 19th, 20ieth and 21st centuries

- augustinian order (Ordo sancti Augustini, OSA) – Pavel Křížkovský (1820-1885)

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

František Sušil (1804-1868)

- opera in the 19th century


(rest after the break)


Janáček’s life

Hukvaldy – Brno – Praha

„great old age“

Problém of Jenufa (Její pastorkyňa)


Janáček’s personal life

family – marriage – children


Important inspirations

Russian culture – folksong – speech melodies – women – bizarre subjects, heroines


ex. Horňácko, František Okénka