Baerenreiter Verlag Songs I - Dvorak/Hajek - High Voice/Piano - Book

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Jonas Hajek
Format: Book
Voicing: High Voice with Piano

• The first Urtext edition of Dvorak's early songs with several first publications
• Includes volumes for high and low voice, each with detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and a Critical Commentary (Eng)
• Completion of the five-volume new Urtext edition of all Dvorak's songs for voice and piano

The volume "Songs I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of Antonin Dvorak's complete solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs from Dvorak's first publicly performed, previously unpublished song "Remembering" to the five "Evening Songs", which were published by F. A. Urbanek in 1883 and date from the composer's mature creative period.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 Dvorak 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 Dvorak himself determined in consultation with his publishers.

Contemporary literary sources, including singable translations, were also evaluated for the edition. For the "Songs from the Dvur Kralove Manuscript", which Dvorak 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 Krcek.