Dvorak Songs I for Low Voice and Piano

The first Urtext edition of Dvorák'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 Dvorák’s songs for voice and piano

Editor:Hájek, Jonáš

Foreword / Introduction:Beveridge, David R.

Product format:Performance score, Urtext edition

Binding:Paperback

Print run:1st printing 2026

Languages of the work:Czech, English, German

Languages of the text:English, Czech, German

Composer / Author:Beveridge, David R.

Preface

Composer / Author:Beveridge, David R.

Predmluva

Composer / Author:Beveridge, David R.

Vorwort

Songs Published During Dvorák’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

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

Songs Preserved in Manuscript

Lieder

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

Critical Report

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complete solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs – from Dvořák’s first publicly performed, previously unpublished song “Remembering” to the five “Evening Songs”, which were published by F. A. Urbánek in 1883 and date from the composer’s mature creative period.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.

안토닌 드보르작의 피아노 반주 독주곡 전곡 5권으로 구성된 원전판 중 "가곡 1권"에는 드보르작의 첫 공개 연주곡이자 이전에는 출판되지 않았던 "기억하며"부터 1883년 F. A. 우르바네크 출판사에서 출간되어 그의 원숙기 작품으로 평가받는 5곡의 "저녁 노래"까지 총 31곡이 수록되어 있습니다.

많은 경우 곡의 정확한 작곡 연도와 원어가 불분명하며, 일부는 독일어 가사만 남아 있습니다. 이러한 점을 고려하여 편집자는 원전을 두 부분으로 나누었습니다. 드보르작이 생전에 출판한 24곡에 이어 자필 원고 형태로만 남아 있는 7곡을 수록했습니다. 따라서 곡 순서는 부르크하우저의 작품 목록과는 의도적으로 다르며, 드보르작이 출판사와 협의하여 직접 정한 순서를 따릅니다.

이번 판본 작업을 위해 노래로 부를 수 있는 번역본을 포함한 동시대 문학 자료들도 검토되었다. 드보르자가 두 번 출판한 "드보르 크랄로베 필사본의 노래들"의 경우, 비평 주석에서는 초판의 변형들을 기록하여 두 버전 모두 연주할 수 있도록 했다. 두 개의 단편적인 노래는 야르밀 부르하우저와 야로슬라프 크르체크에 의해 복원되었다.

작곡가 Dvorak, Antonin

에디터 Hajek, Jonas