Leoš Janáček - Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 "From the Street" (1 of 2)

Janáček intended this composition as a tribute to a worker (named František Pavlík), who, on the date indicated by the title, had been bayoneted during demonstrations calling support for a Czech university at Brno. In the work Janáček expressed his disapproval with the violent death of the young jointer. He started to compose it immediately after the accident occurred and finished composition on January 1906. The première took place on 27 January 1906 in Brno (Friends of the Arts Club) with Ludmila Tučková at the piano. Janáček also wrote a third movement (funeral march), which he cut out and burned shortly before the first public performance of the piece in 1906. He was not satisfied with the rest of the composition either and later tossed the manuscript of the two remaining movements into the river Vltava. The composition remained lost until 1924 (the year of Janáčeks seventieth birthday), when Tučková announced that she owned a copy. The renewed première took place on 23 November 1924 in Prague under the title 1. X. 1905. Janáček later accompanied the work with inscription: "The white marble of the steps of the Besední dům in Brno. The ordinary labourer František Pavlík falls, stained with blood. He came mere to champion higher learning and has been slain by cruel murderers."

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[turmlicht]

As already mentioned, I'm moved to tears by this. But it is so beautiful, I can't get away from it.

[ThePhilosorpheus]

I had never listened to anything by Janacek before.. This is magnificent!

[DhrKlaasma]

Can someone tell me what the demonstration where late Pavlik died, was about? Have searched the wonderfull database of knowledge called internet but only found that he died but never the reason (of the demostration).

[DhrKlaasma]

@davidwhorton95 Can you point me out to a recording as you mean, please?

[salubrious]

@turmlicht It is so beautiful, absolutely sublime.

[davidwhorton95]

As a pianist who has studied this piece to some extent, I must say that I am not impressed by the quality of the interpretation. It seems that this performer has disregarded all of Janacek's deliberate and careful markings and treated this as though it were an outline of what was intended. I'd recommend looking at a better recording.

[mlandowski92]

AMAZING!

[newgeorge]

the ending is amazing!

[waltts]

perhaps the most under-appreciated composer of his time. Maybe second to Bartok?

[rbob200]

amazing! truly a great work of art.

[markrevelle1]

is this Firkusny?