UNESCO has awarded the city of Brno another title. The Leoš Janáček Archive is now part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. To date five Czech representatives have been entered into the Register.
The entire Leoš Janáček Archive was added to the Memory of the World Register. “Our archive has joined the very select company of the most important of the world’s most important collections of documents, currently numbering some 400. Among these it has an extraordinary position because there are only two other complete collections of a composer’s archive – Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms,” notes the head of the Department of Music History and curator of the Janáček collection of the Moravian Museum Jiří Zahrádka.
The Leoš Janáček Archive is a collection of documents, made up of all the writings left behind by the writer, and many other materials which were gradually added after the author's death in 1928. It includes (with a few exceptions) all the manuscripts of Janáček’s compositions, librettos and studies as well as the composer’s library, in which there are many collections of literature and specialist books with notes in Janáček’s handwriting. A fundamental part of this is Janáček’s correspondence, amounting to more than 14 thousand items.
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