1. X. 1905
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1. X. 1905, also known as Janáček's Sonata, is a two-movement piano composition which Leoš Janáček composed in 1905.
Janáček intended this composition as a tribute to a worker (named František Pavlík), who, on the date indicated by the title, had been bayonetted during demonstrations calling support for a Tchech university at Brno.
There are two movements, of which the translated titles read:
Janáček also wrote a third movement, which he destroyed shortly before the first public performance of the piece in 1906.
The music breathes an intense, but intimate, mood of grief and rejection.
[edit] References
- Leoš Janáček, Compositions for piano, ed. Dr. Ludvík Kundera and Jarmil Burghauser, 1989, musical text reprinted from Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leoš Janáček, series F/volume 1, 1979, Supraphon, Prague.
- Milan Kundera, sleeve notes for Leoš Janáček - Piano works (played by) Alain Planès, Harmonia Mundi, 1994.
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