JANACEK´S FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

Thema con variazioni - Leos Janacek - correspondence with his wife Zdenka and daughter Olga 

ed. by Svatava Pribanova     

• 627 letters, correspondence cards, postcards and telegrams (starting with the year 1893)
• The majority published for the first time
• Editor's notes, brief biographies of all mentioned persons, bibliographical information about deposited materials
• Indexes of names and Janacek's works

Janacek´s compositional endeavours, his musical world, concerts, operas, problems with publishers, his spa treatments, journeys, pupils, colleagues, siblings, personal details, Hukvaldy - all these have survived in correspondence as an authentic testimony of composer's life. A testimony such as this can be confronted with everything contained in the memoirs and recollections of others, including literature concerning Janacek himself.