How Long to Read Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914)

How Long Does it Take to Read Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914)?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 52 minutes to read Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) by John Tyrrell

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Description

John Tyrrell's biography of the Leos Janácek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janácek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Janácek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Janácek's life in any language and offers new views of Janácek as composer, writer, thinker and human being. Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Janácek's sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Janácek's life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences ('Music as autobiography I', etc.; 'Janácek's knowledge of opera I', etc.) and individual chapters on Janácek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Charpentier's Louise), on his mentors (such as Antonín Dvorák) and his bêtes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Janácek's health by Dr Stephen Lock (one of the editors of the Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, OUP 1994 and 2001, editor of the British Medical Journal, 1975-91, and a Janácek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Janácek's earnings and finances by Dr Jirí Zahrádka (curator of the Janácek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of Sárka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).

How long is Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914)?

Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) by John Tyrrell is 919 pages long, and a total of 238,021 words.

This makes it 310% the length of the average book. It also has 291% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 21 hours and 40 minutes to read Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) aloud.

What Reading Level is Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914)?

Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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