Editing Leoš Janáček (section)

== Folk music research ==
[[Image:Janáček collecting folksongs.jpg|thumb|Janáček collecting folksongs on 19 August 1906 in [[Strání]]]]  
Janáček came from a region characterized by its deeply rooted [[folk culture]], which he explored as a young student under Pavel Křížkovský.{{sfn|Procházková|2006|p=381}} His meeting with the folklorist and dialectologist [[František Bartoš (folklorist)|František Bartoš]] (1837–1906) was decisive in his own development as a folklorist and composer, and led to their collaborative and systematic collections of folk songs.{{sfn|Procházková|2006|p=381}} Janáček became an important collector in his own right, especially of [[Lach dialects|Lachian]], [[Moravian Slovakia]]n, [[Moravian Wallachia]]n and Slovakian songs. From 1879, his collections included transcribed speech intonations.{{sfn|Procházková|2006|p=382}} He was one of the organizers of the ''Czech-Slavic Folklore Exhibition'', an important event in Czech culture at the end of 19th century. From 1905 he was President of the newly instituted ''Working Committee for Czech National Folksong in Moravia and Silesia'', a branch of the Austrian institute ''Das Volkslied in Österreich'' (Folksong in Austria), which was established in 1902 by the Viennese publishing house [[Universal Edition]]. Janáček was a pioneer and propagator of [[ethnography|ethnographic]] photography in Moravia and Silesia.{{sfn|Procházková|2006|p=383}} In October 1909 he acquired an [[Thomas Edison|Edison]] phonograph and became one of the first to use phonographic recording as a folklore research tool. Several of these recording sessions have been preserved, and were reissued in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gnosis.cz/GBrno/detail.php?nid=GM010&ntyp=1 |title=Nejstarší nahrávky moravského a slovenského zpěvu 1909–1912 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826100402/http://www.gnosis.cz/GBrno/detail.php?nid=GM010&ntyp=1 |archive-date=26 August 2007 |access-date=18 March 2012 |publisher=Gnosis Brno |language=cs}}</ref>