Portrait of Olga Janáčková. The title page of the manuscript of the composition bore the dedication "Mé Olze na památku" [In the memory of my Olga].[1]
Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga, JW 4/30 (also translated as the Elegy on the Death of My Daughter Olga; in Czech: Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy) is a cantata for tenor solo, mixed choir and pianoforte, written by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček in 1903. It was written to commemorate the death of composer's daughter, Olga Janáčková.[1] Janáček composed the piece to the text of the Russian teacher Marfa Nikolayevna Veveritsa.[1]
^ abcSimeone (ed., 1997), p. 130-131
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