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Acknowledgements
That the project outlined above has reached even this necessarily provisional stage is
due only to the steadfast (and often obstinate) support, help and encouragement of a
daunting number of people.
An initial study trip to Brno was funded by the Humanities Small Project
scheme at the University of Nottingham, for which I am pleased to record my thanks
here. Two further trips were made possible by the kind award of travel grants from
the Lenton and Wortley Hall Association (Wortley being my old hall of residence in
Nottingham from 1979–82). Subsequent excursions to Vienna and Brno were entirely
thanks to the personal kindness and generosity of several of the individuals listed
below.
The staff of the Music History Division of the Moravian Regional Museum in
Brno have been unfailingly welcoming and helpful on my Brno visits, often at
awkward times of the year for them. Warm thanks are due to its successive directors,
Dr Jitka Bajgarová and Dr František Malý, and to the successive curators of the
Janáček Archive: Dr Jarmila Procházková, Dr Svatava Přibáňová and Dr Jiří
Zahrádka. Dr Procházková was ready and keen to share her knowledge of Janáček’s
work, particularly in the area of folk music. Despite the language barriers thrown up
by my poor Czech and hardly better German, Dr Přibáňová — one of the foremost
Czech experts on Janáček — kept me regularly plied with tea and biscuits, something
inconceivable had I been working on Birtwistle sketches in the British Library. Dr
Zahrádka is now making musicological waves with his new editions of several
Janáček works including Šárka, Výlety páně Broučkovy and the Mša glagolskaja.
Both he and his wife, Šárka Zahrádková, have made my recent trips to Brno especially
pleasurable, always keen to discuss and debate new (and old) aspects of Janáček’s life
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