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Brian Friel

Performances, by Brian Friel, explores the relationship the the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek, and his final surge of creative energy.

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ISBN

9780571227938

Date Published

03.03.2005

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Summary

This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy.

Performances premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003.

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Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929. He died in County Donegal on 2 October 2015.

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