Janáček: Female Choruses
Composer: Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) Editor: Jirí Zahrádka Format: Full Score Instrumentation: Female Choir Binding: Hardcover Work Languages: Czech, English, German ISMN: 9790260108639 Size: 10.7 x 13.5 inches Pages: 121 Urtext / Critical Edition Description Janáček devoted a large part of his oeuvre to choral music, though the compositions in question are mostly for male chorus. This was due to his activities as a choirmaster and, to a certain extent, also the performance possibilities in Brno in his days with the excellent Moravian Teachers' Choral Society. However, with the men drafted to fight in the Great War, the female Moravian Women Teachers' Choir gradually began to give separate performances, and it is to this ensemble that Janáček turned his attention at the beginning of the wartime year of 1916. It was the only time in his life when he composed for female chorus. in January he wrote Wolf-tracks according to the poem by Jaroslav Vrchlický, which was follow