Description: JENUFA JEJÍ PASTORKYNA opera o trech jednánich podle dramatu z moravského venkovského zivota od Gabriely Preissové hudbu slozil LEOS JANÁCEK PARTITURA BRNENSKÁ VERZE (1908) Vydavatelé: Sir Charles Mackerras a John Tyrrell UE 30 145 UNIVERSAL EDITION ISMN M-008-05544-7 JENUFA HER STEPDAUGHTER Opera in three acts from Moravian peasant life by Gabriela Preissová Music by LEOS JANÁCEK FULL SCORE BRNO VERSION (1908) Edited by Sir Charles Mackerras and John Tyrrell English translation by Otakar Kraus and Edward Downes UE 30 145 UNIVERSAL EDITION ISMN M-008-05544-7 PREFACE The composition of Jenufa Janácek's third opera, commonly known in the non-Czech world as Jenufa, was based on the play Jeji pastorkyña [Her Stepdaughter] by Gabriela Preissová (1862-1946). Preissová's "tale of Moravian folk life' was given at the National Theatre in Prague on 9 November 1890. The next year a new production was given in Brno (10 January 1891), and the play was published by the Prague firm Fr. Simácek. Janácek had already had dealings with Preissová as the writer on whose short story his second opera, Pocatek románu [The Beginning of a Romance], 1891, had been based and seems to have approached Preissová for permission to set the play even before The Beginning of a Romance had been staged in Brno, in 1894. Preissová recalled in a memoir fifty years after the event how 'the highly talented, quick-tempered Moravian Leos Janácek applied to me. He said that he had fallen in love with Jenufa and already whole sentences of it rushed into his mind which he immediately dressed with his music. He did not need to put anything into verse, the words and sentences apparently spoke with their own music fully in accord with his. We came to a happy arrangement.' In fact Preissová at first tried to put Janácek off: 'I think that the material of P [astorkyna, i.e. Jenufa] is not suitable for musical setting - but perhaps in time we'll find something more suitable' (Preissová to Janácek; 6 November 1893). Janacek, however, was single-minded in his choice and, in Preissová's words, soon 'began to dress the action of Jenufa with his passionate endeavour. He studied
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