Format : Sheet music
for Tenor Alto Three Female Voices and Piano-Janácek s intimate chamber-music drama about the passionate love of a simple farm boy for a beautiful gypsy girl is one of his great vocal masterpieces.This cycle of 22 songs for tenor (an alto and three female voices are added in three numbers) was composed on a setting of poems that were published anonymously. It was not until 80 years later that their author was identified as the regional poet and writer Ozef Kalda.The cycle also contains theatrical elements such as the alto entrance and exit cues and lighting effects. Composed in 1917-19 the Diary was premièred in Brno in 1921 from a manuscript prepared by Gustav Homola.The same manuscriptserved as a basis for the first edition which was issued by the Brno publisher Oldrich Pazd rek in 1921 as well as for this current first Urtext edition.First Urtext edition with a detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editorSinging translations in German (by Max Brod) and English (by Bernard Keefe)Numbers IX to XI which include the alto and three female voices also available online
SKU: BA.BA06869-01
ISBN 9790260109599. 34 x 27 cm inches. Text Language: Czech, German, English. Preface: Zahrádka, Jirí.
Even though Janacek’s song drama „The Diary of One Who Disappeared” is scored for chamber ensemble, the composer’s operatic experience is clearly detectable. This work appears in the series “Complete Critical Works of Leos Janacek” (vol. B/6), edited by Jirí Zahrádka. The volume includes an expanded preface (compared with the performing edition, BA09575) and a separate edition of the song texts. The beautiful engraving matches that of the performing edition. During recent years the author of the poems has been identified as Josef Kalda, and we know that the muse of all of Janacek’s late works was Kamila Stösslová. “That’s why there is so much ardent feeling in this work” (letter of 24 July 1924) . “… With this work I constantly thought of you! You were this Žofka to me!“ (letter of 24 December 1927). The renowned editor’s research uncovered several new findings.
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