Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

Kate Molleson explores the maverick spirit, fierce passions and phenomenal twilight years of Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček was a true Czech original. He heard music in the way people talk on the streets, loved the local and made it universal - pouring his “speech melodies” into pioneering, devastating operas, and writing some of the most intimate confessionals in instrumental music. His life also came…