Diary of One Who Vanished
A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda
ISBN10: 0374139237
ISBN13: 9780374139230
Trade Paperback
48 Pages
$9.00
In 1917, reading his local newspaper, the great Czech composer Leos Janacek (1854-1928) discovered the poems that he was to set in his song cycle Diary of One Who Vanished. Written by Ozef Kalda and published anonymously, the poems tell the story of a farmer's boy who abandons his home because he has fallen in love with a gypsy. These new English versions by Seamus Heaney were commissioned by English National Opera for a series of international performances that opned in Dublin in October of 1999.
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Praise for Diary of One Who Vanished
"Heaney [is] an artist so exquisitely gifted and imaginatively capacious that only a work of such mighty scale would answer to his capabilities."—Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books