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Leos Janacek

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A Recollection, JWVIII/32 (6)
Adagio for Orchestra (3)
Album for Kamila Stosslova, JWVIII/33 (1)
Allegro, JXIX/9 (2)
Allegro for violin and piano (2)
Amarus (cantata) (3)
Ave Maria (3)
Capriccio, JWII/2 'Defiance' (1)
Capriccio for piano (left hand) and chamber ensemble, 'Vzdor', JWVII/12 (4)
Cartak on the Solan (1)
Chants populaires moraves (1)
Christ the Lord is born (1)
Concertino, JWVII/11 (7)
Dumka, JWVII/4 (5)
Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga (5)
Exaudi Deus (1)
Famous Male Choruses (1)
Folk Poetry of Hukvaldy in Songs (13) (selection) (1)
Folk Poetry of Hukvaldy in Songs (13) (1)
Folksongs (6) sung by Eva Gabel (1)
From the House of the Dead: Suite (2)
From the House of the Dead (8)
Glagolitic Mass, JWIII/9 (23)
Halfar the Schoolmaster (2)
Hospodine! (1)
Idyll for string orchestra (7)
In Remembrance, JWVIII/9 (1)
In the Mists (arr. Lucy Humphris for trumpet and piano) (1)
In the Mists (32)
Intimate Sketches (4)
Intimate Studies (1)
Jealousy (9)
Jenufa (excerpts) (1)
Jenufa: Suite (arr. P Breiner) (1)
Jenufa: Suite (1)
Jenufa: Symphonic Suite (arr. T Ille) (1)
Jenufa (20)
Kantor Halfar (1)
Kaspar Rucky (2)
Katya Kabanova (excerpts) (2)
Katya Kabanova: Suite (arr. J Smolka) (1)
Katya Kabanova: Suite (arr. P Breiner) (1)
Katya Kabanova (9)
Lachian Dances (6) (12)
Lord Have Mercy for Soloists, Mixed Choir, Organ, Harp and Brass Instruments (1)
Male Choruses (3) (2)
Male Choruses (4) (2)
Male Folk Choruses (4) (1)
Marycka Magdonova (Version 2, 1907) (1)
Marycka Magdonova (2)
Mass in E flat major (excerpt) (1)
Mass in E flat major (1)
Miniatures (6) (1)
Mladi (Youth Suite), JWVII/10 (14)
Moravian Choruses (6) after Dvorak (1)
Moravian Dances (3) for piano (5)
Moravian Dances (5) for orchestra, JWVI/7 (5)
Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs (selection) (2)
Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs (3)
Moravian Folk Songs (15) for piano, JWVIII/23 (2)
Moravian Male Choruses (4) (3)
Music for Club Swinging, JWVIII/13 (1)
On an Overgrown Path (A blown-away leaf) (arr. J Stedron) (1)
On an Overgrown Path, JWVIII/17 (arr. Jarmil Burghauser) (1)
On an Overgrown Path, JWVIII/17 (arr. for string orchestra) (1)
On an Overgrown Path, JWVIII/17 (excerpts) (1)
On an Overgrown Path, JWVIII/17 (44)
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Osud (Fate) (excerpts) (1)
Osud (Fate): Orchestral Suite (arr. F Jilek) (1)
Osud (Fate) (2)
Otcenas (Our Father) (8)
Our Birch Tree (1)
Our Father (1)
Paralipomena (2)
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JWVIII/19 'From the Street' (arr. Reinbert de Leeuw for chamber ensemble) (1)
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JWVIII/19 'From the Street' (39)
Pochod modracku (March of the Bluebirds) (2)
Pohadka (Fairy-tale), JWVII/5 (arr. Ariane Brisson for flute and piano) (1)
Pohadka (Fairy-tale), JWVII/5 (23)
Prelude in G minor (1)
Presto for cello and piano (2)
Reminiscence, JW8/32 (1)
Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) (original version for 1-3 voices, clarinet and piano) (2)
Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) (6)
Romance for violin and piano (1)
Romance no.4, JWVII/3 (3)
Sarka: Duo lyrique in 3 acts (arr. Fabrice Bollon) (1)
Sarka (3)
Schluch und Jau, music for Gerhart Hauptmann's play (4)
Schluck und Jau: Incidental Music, JWIX/11 (1)
Sedmdesat tisic The 70,000 for male voices and tenor soloist (1)
Serbian Kolo 'Cossack Dance' (1)
Seventy Thousand (70000) (1)
Short Compositions for Piano, 1st series (1901–08) (1)
Sinfonietta (38)
Songs from Detva - Brigand Ballads (1)
Songs of Hradcany (2)
String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (arr. E Jacobsen, orch. MP Atkinson) (1)
String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (arr. for string orchestra) (1)
String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (arr. for violin and cello) (1)
String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (33)
String Quartet no.2 'Intimate Letters' (arr. for string orchestra) (1)
String Quartet no.2 'Intimate Letters' (30)
Suite (Serenade), op.3, JW6/6 (3)
Suite for string orchestra (10)
Taras Bulba (29)
Tema con variazioni (Zdenka's Variations) (3)
The 70,000 (2)
The Ballad of Blanik (5)
The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Fabrice Bollon) (1)
The Cunning Little Vixen (highlights) (3)
The Cunning Little Vixen: Suite (9)
The Cunning Little Vixen (17)
The Czech Legion (3)
The Danube, JW IX/7 (4)
The Diary of one who Disappeared (8)
The Eternal Gospel (6)
The Excursions of Mr Broucek: Suite (arr. P Breiner) (1)
The Excursions of Mr Broucek: Suite (3)
The Excursions of Mr Broucek (3)
The Fiddler's Child (8)
The Makropulos Affair: Suite (arr. P Breiner) (1)
The Makropulos Affair (4)
The Makropulos Case: Suite (1)
The Wandering Madman (3)
The Wild Duck (2)
The Wolf's Trail (3)
True Love (1)
Violin Concerto 'Pilgrimage of the Soul' (4)
Violin Sonata, JW VII/7 (arr. Laura van der Heijden for cello and piano) (1)
Violin Sonata, JW VII/7 (arr. clarinet and piano by Shirley Brill) (1)
Violin Sonata, JW VII/7 (27)
Violin Sonata (21)
Vlci stopa 'The Wolf's Trail' for female voices, soprano and tenor soloists and piano (1)
Zdenka Variations in B flat major, JWVIII/6 (3)
Znelka 1: Sonnet (arr. Rolf Gjelsten for string quartet) (1)
Znelka 2: Sonnet (arr. Rolf Gjelsten for string quartet) (1)

Leoš Janáček (baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style.

Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen, the Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, two string quartets, and other chamber works. Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, he is considered one of the most important Czech composers.

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