Leoš Janáček
From the House of the Dead
Short instrumentation: 4 3 3 3 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(5), hp, cel, str
Duration: 85'
Übersetzer: Antonio Gronen-Kubizki, Denis Arundell, Max Brod
Bearbeitet von: Osvald Chlubna, Bretislav Bakala
Dichter der Textvorlage: Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski
Klavierauszug von: Bretislav Bakala
Libretto von: Leoš Janáček
Choir: TB
Roles:
Petrowitsch
baritone
Alej
tenor
Luka
tenor
Der Platzkommandant
baritone
Skuratoff
tenor
Tschekunoff
baritone
Schischkoff
bass-baritone
a number of smaller parts and silent roles
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute (+picc)
3rd flute (+picc)
4th flute (+picc)
1st oboe
2nd oboe
cor anglais
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb (+cl(Eb))
3rd clarinet in Bb (+cl(Eb)
bass cl)
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
3rd bassoon (+cbsn)
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st trumpet in F
2nd trumpet in F
3rd trumpet in F
bass trumpet (+tenor tuba)
1st trombone
2nd trombone
3rd trombone
tuba
timpani
percussion(4)
bells
chains
harp
celesta
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Janácek - Aus einem Totenhaus
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Leoš Janáček
Janácek: From the House of the Dead
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Type: Klavierauszug
Language: Deutsch | Tschechisch
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Work introduction
Read an interview with Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau on Janáček's Aus einem Totenhaus.
Leoš Janáček based his final opera on his own libretto after Dostojevsky’s Memoirs from the House of the Dead. He wrote, drafted and revised the opera in full score during 1927 - 1928. He then had it copied out by two of his long-established copyists (Václav Sedláček and Jaroslav Kulhánek), who shared the work between them. Janáček supervised the copying and the correction of their score, making many changes and additions which resulted in new pages having to be inserted. Then he began a final check through the score, adding extra doublings, dynamics and other details in his own hand. He completed Acts 1 and 2 in this way, but died before he had checked Act 3. In other words, except for a final check of Act 3 and any last-minute alterations Janáček might have made at rehearsals, From the House of the Dead is no less finished than any other Janáček opera.