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Diary of One Who Vanished: A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda

Diary of One Who Vanished: A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda

Kalda, Ozef
Heaney, Seamus
Janacek, Leos

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0374139237
ISBN13: 9780374139230
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Oct 27 2000
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.05
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.21 Depth: 5.95
Language: English

A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate

Dappled woodland light,
Spring well chill and bright,
Eyes like stars at night,
Open knees so white.
Four things death itself won't cover,
Unforgettable forever.

In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, the Czech composer Leos Janacek discovered the poems that he was to set to music in his song cycle Diary of One Who Vanished. Written by Ozef Kalda and published anonymously, they 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 the English National Opera for a series of international performances, which opened in Dublin in October 1999.

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