Baerenreiter Verlag Suite for Piano in a Major Op. 98 - Dvorak - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano Suite for Piano in a Major Op. 98 - Dvorak - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Iacopo Cividini
Format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Piano
Scoring: Piano

Antonin Dvorak's five-movement "Suite in A major" for piano was completed in New York on 1 March 1894, shortly after the triumphant success of his "New World" Symphony. As he himself noted in the autograph, it was the fifth piece he composed during his stay abroad. In a letter to his publisher Simrock he called the Suite, alongside the "Biblical Songs", his finest achievement to date in this area. The Suite was published by Simrock in that same year and received its premiere performance in December.
After meticulously examining all the surviving sources, including Dvorak's autograph score, editor Iacopo Cividini chose the original print as the main source for his edition.