The first volume of John Tyrrell's biography of Jan�ček, the culmination of a life's work on the composer, will be published by Faber and Faber in November. The biography provides the most detailed account of Jan�ček's life in any language and offers new views of him as composer, writer, thinker and human being, drawing extensively on key sources from the Brno archive.

Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and the composer's 60th birthday, consists of 28 chapters providing a straightforward chronological account of his life and forty contextual chapters. These include chapters on Jan�ček as a teacher, theorist and ethnographer and his relationship to influential works such as Charpentier's Louise and Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. More information on the biography and how to order a copy will be available here nearer the publishing date.

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