Baerenreiter Verlag Selected Piano Works - Janacek/Pivoda - Piano - Book

Composer: Leos Janacek
Editor: Ondrej Pivoda
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano

Includes:

• First Urtext edition of Janacek's lesser-known piano pieces
• Several pieces published for the first time
• Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor

This Urtext edition of Janacek's works includes lesser-known piano pieces and miniatures from his late years. They complete our picture of Janacek the piano composer, best known for the cycles "On an Overgrown Path" and "In the Mists". The late miniatures, entered in the album of Kamila Stosslova, reveal his compositional style at its most concise.
The editor Ondrej Pivoda, the curator of the Moravian State Museum in Brno, has taken the autograph manuscripts as his principal sources while consulting other accessible sources, such as historical editions and copyists manuscripts. This series of piano miniatures appears for the first time in a scholarly-critical edition.