8 MAP Smetanova street 14 Janáček's Organ School was housed in the "Greek Villa" and since 1910 the Maestro lived and worked in a house built in its garden. It was the place where he composed his most outstanding works. A lovely house and a Neo-Renaissance building from 1891 stand next to each other at Smetanova Street. In 1906, it was purchased by the Union for the Development of Church Music in Moravia which opened an organ school. Leoš Janáček was the school's headmaster from 1881 but the school did not have a permanent seat until the Chleborád Villa was purchased. Janáček headed the school until 1920 when it was transformed into a state conservatory. It was the place where not only playing the organ, but also the piano, violin, singing and composition were taught. The school educated many prominent composers such as Oskar Chlubna, Vilém Petrželka, Václav Kaprál and Jan Kunc. Janáček's “Master Class” established by the Prague Conservatory, which guided e.g. Pavel Haas, was seated in the villa along with the conservatory from 1919. Today, it houses a children's art school and the Department of Music History of the Moravian Regional Museum which also includes the Janáček Archives. When the organ school moved into the villa, the management of the Union had a small house built for the headmaster in the garden instead of wooden stables. Janáček and his wife moved in the house in 1910 and remained there until the end of Janáček's life. The new apartment became the place of origin of all his masterpieces. Today, it is the site of the Memorial of Leoš Janáček of the Moravian Regional Museum where you can see the well-preserved original study and Janáček's piano, which he got as a wedding gift and on which he composed perhaps all of his pieces. String Quartet no. 1 Adagio, con motto / Pavel Haas Quartet Leoš Janáček String Quartet No. 1 2007 / Pavel Haas Quartet / www.supraphon.cz