How to Pronounce Gabriela Preissová
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Mar 23, 1862 Kutná Hora, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Died on 27 Mar 1946 (aged 84)
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About Gabriela Preissová
- Gabriela Preissová, née Gabriela Sekerová, sometimes used pen name Matylda Dumontová (23 March 1862 in Kutná Hora – 27 March 1946 in Prague), was a Czech writer and playwright.
- Her play Její pastorkyna was the basis for the opera Jenufa by Leoš Janácek, as well as a film by Miroslav Cikán.
- His earlier opera The Beginning of a Romance was also based on one of her stories. Preissová mostly wrote stories full of optimism and the joy of life idealising village life.
- Her stories first appeared in the early 1890s.
- The more significant appeared in a three-volume collection.
- Her books, written in the 1920s, were about the tragic rural life of the Carinthian Slavs, usually with a strong woman as a heroine.
- These dramas didn't achieve the artistic spontaneity of her early work.
- Themes of her stories were mostly the affairs of young lovers and the obstacles to their consummation.
- Some tales were set to music, such as Eva by Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Jenufa, an opera by Janácek.
