Jan’aéek

(yan-a’-chék), Leos, Hukvaldy, July 3, 1854—M6hr.-Ostrau, Aug. 12, 1928; composer of original style, studied at Prague School, Leipzig and Vienna Cons., but largely self-taught; of expre ion natural accents and declamation of human voice, also unconventional in harmonic method; influenced by folklore; late in life he was accepted by the intern at’l. music world as in some measure a pioneer; founded org. school in Briinn, 1881, where he pa ed most of his life; after 1919, taught comp. at the Cons. there; c. (operas) ‘‘Jenufa,’ story of Moravian life, 1901, prod. until 1916 in Prague, but thereafter pop. in German version in Austria and Germany, heard also at Met. Op. House, 1924; “ Katja Kabanova” (1922); ‘‘Das Schlaue Fiichslein,” an animal fable (1925); “Die Sache Makropoulos” (1925) and a posth. work, “‘Aus einem Totenhaus” (after |Dostoievsky novel), with libretto by composer (Briinn, 1930); also Fest. Ma , Sinfonietta for orch., string quartet, piano sonata, songs; orch. rhapsodie “Taras Bulba,”’ etc.;