Description

The composition "1.X.1905," commonly referred to as a "sonata," originated in the autumn of 1905, a period marked by violent riots between Czech and German-speaking populations in Janáček's hometown of Brno. Spurred by the death of a Czech worker, Janáček initially composed a three-part piano piece titled "From the Street, on October 1, 1905." However, he later destroyed the third movement in his fireplace and discarded the remaining two movements into the Vltava river, even before the work's premiere. As a result, the only surviving version is the first edition published in 1924, which Janáček expert Jiří Zahrádka has carefully evaluated and annotated for the Urtext edition by G. Henle Publishers and Universal Edition.