Dvořák: Songs - Volume 1
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- Composer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
- Editor: Jonáš Hájek
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano, High Voice
- Originally for: Piano, Voice, Baritone
- Work Languages: Czech, English, German
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- Size: 9.1 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 160
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
The volume "Songs I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of Antonín Dvořák's complete solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs – from Dvořák's first publicly performed, previously unpublished song "Remembering" to the five "Evening Songs", which were published by F. A. Urbánek in 1883 and date from the composer's mature creative period.
In many cases the exact date of composition and the original language of the songs remain unclear – some have survived only with German vocal texts. with this in mind, the editor decided to divide the edition into two parts: the 24 songs that Dvořák published in print during his lifetime are followed by seven others that have survived only in manuscript form. The order of the songs thus deliberately deviates from Burghauser's catalogue of works and is based on the presentation that Dvořák himself determined in consultation with his publishers.
Contemporary literary sources, including singable translations, were also evaluated for the edition. for the "Songs from the Dvůr Králové Manuscript", which Dvořák published twice, the Critical Commentary documents the variants of the first edition, thus enabling performances of both versions. Two fragmentary songs were reconstructed by Jarmil Burghauser and Jaroslav Krček.
Contents:
Songs Published During Dvořák's Lifetime
- The Orphan. Ballad, Op. 5 B 24
- Four Songs to Words of Serbian Folk Poems, Op. 6 B 29 -- I The Maiden and the Grass -- II Warning -- III Flowery Omens -- IV No Escape
- Four Songs from the Dvur Králové Manuscript, Op. 7 -- I The Nosegay B 30/5 -- II The Rose B 30/4 -- III The Cuckoo B 30/1 -- IV The Lark B 30/3
- Six Songs from the Dvur Králové Manuscript, Op. 17 -- II The Forsaken B 30/2 -- VI The Strawberries B 30/6
- [Evening Songs], Op. 3 B 61/1–4 -- I The Stars That Twinkle in the Sky -- II I Dreamed Last Night That You Were Dead -- III I Am That Knight of Fairy Tale -- IV When God Was in a Happy Mood
- Four Songs, Op. 9 -- I The Reason B 23/2 -- II Meditation B 23/4 -- III The Soughing of the Trees Has Ceased B 61/5 -- IV The Spring Came Flying From Afar B 61/6
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Evening Songs, Op. 31 B 61/7–11 -- I Visions of Heaven I Fondly Paint -- II This I Would Ask Each Tiny Bird -- III Like to a Linden Tree Am I -- IV All Ye That Labour, Come to Me -- V All Through the Night a Bird Will Sing
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Songs Preserved in Manuscript
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Two Songs for Baritone B 13
- Trees B 23/1
- Obstacles B 23/3
- Remembering B 23/5
- Rosemary B 24bis
- Just as the Moon Upon the Sky B 61/12
Works:
- The Orphan (Sirotek), B24, Op. 5A/1
- 4 Songs on Serbian Folk Poems (Čtyři písně na slova srbské lidové poezie), B. 29, Op. 6
- 6 Songs from the "Dvůr Králové" Manuscript, B. 30, Op. 7
- Evening Songs (Večerní písně), B. 61a, Op. 3A
- Evening Songs (Večerní písně), B. 61b, Op. 31
- Songs on Words by Eliška Krásnohorská, B. 23, Op. 9A
- 2 Songs, B. 13
- Rozmarýna, B. 24b, Op. 5A/2
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Dvořák: Songs - Volume 1
