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Like most Kundera's work The Farewell Waltz is a book of many layers. On the surface it is a comedy or a burlesque. Still the comedy is just at the top of this story which involves much darker and ambiguous tones. [1] For the Farewell Waltz, Milan Kundera was awarded the Mondello Prize in 1979. [2]
Milan Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 at Purkyňova 6 (6 Purkyně Street) in Královo Pole, a district of Brno, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), to a middle-class family. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971), was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 ...
The waltz is in A-flat major, with a time signature of 3/4. The tempo is marked at tempo di valse, or a waltz tempo. The beginning theme, marked con espressione, is melancholic and nostalgic, and reaches a small high point with a fast flourish. The second part is marked sempre delicatissimo, or con anima in other versions. It is somewhat more ...
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 (Chopin), also called the "Farewell Waltz" The Farewell Waltz, a 1928 French film by Henry Roussel; Farewell Waltz, 1934 German film distributed in U.S. 1939 by Columbia Pictures "Farewell Waltz in G major", an 1831 piano work by Mikhail Glinka "Farewell Waltz", a work by Charles Nolcini (1802-1844 ...
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Jacques and His Master is a play written in 1971 by Milan Kundera, with the subtitle "An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts". [1] Kundera's work is a variation on Denis Diderot's late 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist. The play was first produced in Zagreb, former Yugoslavia, in 1980. It has also been staged in Greece, West Germany ...
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