His final years were spent infatuated with the married Kamila
His works for piano include the song cycle On an Overgrown Path and the sonata From the Street, whereas his six cantatas were given religious names such as Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us and The Eternal Gospel. His final years were spent infatuated with the married Kamila [*]Stosslova who became the inspiration for works like Diary of One Who Walks Alone and his second String Quartet, Intimate Letters, although the first quartet was based on Tolstoy, and is known as the Kreutzer Sonata. Other pieces with literary origins include a Rhapsody on Taras Bulba and Kata Kabanova based on Ostrovsky, while his use of native Moravian folk songs is seen in the lively Sinfonietta and in parts of his Glagolithic Mass. Best known for an opera about an anthropomorphized fox, FTP, identify this Czech composer of Jenufa and The Cunning Little Vixen.
His works for piano include the song cycle On an Overgrown Path and the sonata From the Street, whereas his six cantatas were given religious names such as Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us and The Eternal Gospel.
Leos {Janacek}