Leoš Janáček

You clearly have a love and deep knowledge of the music of the past.

You've responded to Haydn, Mendelssohn, Janáček, Schubert.

I didn't expect you to harbour any anxiety of influence at all, but I see that you do, but you work through it.

Yeah, I mean, composing is really, really hard, isn't it? And you're just like often fighting a battle with crippling self-doubt or thinking you're the best thing that's ever happened and this piece you've written is the best thing that's ever been heard on the planet, you know? Yeah.

I think we are a really special country, because we are a very small country, but the Czech composers in all the ages are the best brand that we can promote.

From Jandis Mazelenka through Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, of course, Leoš Janáček.

And I think it's very important that the music is the language, and it's a language without borders.

It's the most international language we can imagine.

Grieg, and what? Dvořák maybe.

Uh, Janáček.

Those are the men.

But also [laughs] um, there were women, but they were not given the full ticket into the curriculum there as far as I understand.

Um, so you can hear that evolving voice.

The Pavel Haas Quartet, of course, we should say, are regular winners to the Gramophone Awards in Schubert, Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček.

Now, of course, Martinu.

Um, really one of the very finest ensembles of their type.

His life ended on sechs January achtzehnhundertvierundachtzig at the age of einundsechzig due to chronic nephritis.

At the funeral service, the organ was played by the composer Leoš Janáček.

In the aftermath of his death, the succeeding abbot chose to burn all the papers in the Mendel collection to signal a conclusion to the various tax disputes.

Modern investigations in zweitausendeinundzwanzig involved the exhumation of his remains, which provided physical details about his height and allowed for a genomic analysis that indicated a genetic predisposition to heart conditions.

John Tyrell He passed away in 2018 at the age of 76 from cancer.

He was one of the big British musicologists and also a professor who became the world's leading authority on Czech classical music, particularly the operas of Leos Janáček.

Natalino Otto passed away in 1969 at the age of 56 from a heart attack.

Real name, Natale Khodognota.