Intimate Letters : Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova

During the last decade of his life Leo Janá?ek sent hundreds of passionate letters to Kamila Stösslová, a married woman half his age. Selections from their correspondence are translated in this volume, with linking commentary, photographs and a decoding of the lovers erotic references. Their words reveal how much this relationship inspired the composers final, greatest works - including the String Quartet Intimate Letters - and shed valuable light on his personality.