{"product_id":"janzaeks-sinfonietta-9781837654413","title":"Janá\u0026#269;ek's Sinfonietta","description":"\u003cb\u003eA definitive study of Janáček's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book provides a musical 'biography' of Leos Janáček's (1854-1928) most famous orchestral piece - his \u003ci\u003eSinfonietta\u003c\/i\u003e - by analysing its sources, composition, reception history, recordings and musical component parts. The most up-to-date research on the genesis and performance history of the work, it considers in detail Janáček's orchestral writing, the inspiration and genesis of the \u003ci\u003eSinfonietta\u003c\/i\u003e, a documentation of all the surviving sources for the work, the work's performance history during Janáček's lifetime and following his death until the end of the Second World War, including press reviews and relevant correspondence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book also examines the growth in the worldwide popularity of the \u003ci\u003eSinfonietta. \u003c\/i\u003eThis evolved from cautious and hostile critical responses to the premiere recording in 1946 to its gradual acceptance as one of the key works of the 1920s, largely thanks to the advocacy of conductors whose work is considered in detail, alongside other significant recordings. Questions of performance, rehearsal, interpretation and the musical text are considered in a wide-ranging interview with the conductor Jakub Hrůsa, and a concluding chapter provides a detailed commentary on the music itself. The book includes a valuable appendix describing the annotated scores used by conductors such as Otto Klemperer, Frantisek Neumann and Henry Wood, as well as a comprehensive discography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimeone, Nigel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - NIGEL SIMEONE is a scholar, writer and broadcaster specializing in twentieth-century music. He was editor of The Leonard Bernstein Letters (Yale, 2013) and for the Boydell Press has published Charles Mackerras with John Tyrrell (2015), The Janáček Compendium (2019) and most recently Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult (2022) and Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (2025).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZahrádka, Jiří:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - JIŘÍ ZAHRÁDKA is Director of the Janáček Archive in Brno and a musicologist. He is the editor of critical editions of many works by Janáček including the Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, Káťa Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Makropulos Affair, and author of books on Janáček including acclaimed full-length studies of the operas.","brand":"Boydell Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160358482194,"sku":"9781837654413","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca0d608c-b73e-4028-8454-69e2cbd14233.jpg?v=1775055219","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/janzaeks-sinfonietta-9781837654413","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}