1 MAP Mendel Square A large part of Janáček's life is closely related to Old Brno. He came to the Augustinian Monastery when he was eleven and until the age of 56 he lived at what is today Mendel Square. Mendel Square and the Old Brno are associated with a large part of Janáček's life. In 1865, he came as an eleven-year-old from his hometown of Hukvaldy to Brno. He was admitted to the foundation of the Augustinian Monastery of St. Thomas in Old Brno. The monastery, the original complex of which was built in the 14th century, became an important intellectual centre of Moravia. It was the home of personalities such as Gregor J. Mendel, Janáček's teacher Pavel Křížkovský, František Matouš Klácel, a poet and journalist, and especially the enlightened abbot Cyril Napp. The so-called Blue Boys, whose member Janáček became, were musically gifted boys from poor families who were allowed to get a musical education. Later Janáček wrote the March of the Blue Boys, a part of the brass sextet Youth, in a memory of his stay. He stayed in Old Brno even after leaving the monastery. He led the choir at the Basilica of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, he taught at the Slavonic Teacher's Training Institute and got married. He first resided at the Měšťanská (now Křížová) street, in 1882 he moved to a house, which used to stand in the middle of the Klášterní (now Mendel) Square, with his wife Zdenka. That is also where both his children died, 2-year-old Vladimír in 1890 and his daughter Olga in 1903, at the age of 21. March of the Blue Boys / Čekám tě…/ Janáček neznámý 1994/Pavel Šumpík, Eva Podařilová, Frant. Kantor, Martin Opršal /www.supraphon.cz