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'''Leoš Janáček''' (1854-1928), [[Czech]] [[composer]], was the third of the great Czech composers after [[Bedrich Smetana|Smetana]] and [[Dvorak]], and like them was to draw musical inspiration from the folk songs and dance melodies of his homeland, Moravia, a south-eastern region of the modern Republic which he would rarely leave.

'''Leoš Janáček''' (1854-1928), [[Czech]] [[composer]], was the third of the great Czech composers after [[Bedrich Smetana|Smetana]] and [[Dvorak]], and like them was to draw musical inspiration from the folk songs and dance melodies of his homeland, in his case, Moravia, a south-eastern region of the modern Czech Republic which he would rarely leave, except for learning, during his lifetime..

At ten he became a choirboy and, at sixteen the choirmaster, of a monastery in the Moravian capital, Brno, taking over from a strongly nationalist composer/monk whose love of the traditional culture was to profoundly influence Janáček’s music. He studied in [[Prague]] then Liepzig before settling back in Brno.

At ten he became a choirboy and, at sixteen the choirmaster, of a monastery in the Moravian capital, Brno, taking over from a strongly nationalist composer/monk whose love of the traditional culture was to profoundly influence Janáček’s music. He studied in [[Prague]] then Liepzig before settling back in Brno.