• Detailed new preface by Jiri Zahradka (Czech , Eng., Ger.)
• Tried and tested fingerings
• Bärenreiter Urtext at the forefront of Janacek scholarship

Usually referred to as a sonata, 1. X. 1905 is Janacek’s most significant piece for the piano.

The work had a tumultuous history. It originally consisted of three movements inspired by the death of a Czech labourer shot by soldiers during a demonstration in Brno . Shortly after its première in 1906 Janacek destroyed the final movement and...