Baerenreiter Verlag Cypresses for Tenor and Piano, B. 11 - Dvorak - Tenor Vocal/Piano Book

Composer: Antonn Dvorak
Detailed instrumentation: Tenor solo, Piano
Librettist: Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky
Editor: Andreas Frese
Foreword/Introduction: David R. Beveridge / Michal Kosak
Product format: Vocal score, Performance score(s), Urtext edition
Includes the following individual parts: Tenor solo, Piano
Languages of work: Czech
Languages of text: German, Czech, English
Level of difficulty: 4

Dvorak, firmly convinced of his love for one of the daughters of the Cermak family, probably the older Josefina, wrote his first song cycle "Cypresses" in 1865 when he had just turned 24. Even though his arrangement for string quartet is one of the best-known works today, the original version of the songs of 1865 remained in manuscript form until now.

This first ever Urtext edition is based on the autograph. Later versions as well as the printed collection of poems by Pfleger from 1862 were also drawn upon as sources. The musical text is accompanied by an instructive introduction written by the Dvorak scholar David Beveridge.

• First ever Urtext edition of an early work by Dvorak
• With translations of the song texts (English/German)
• Detailed introduction by David Beveridge (English/German/Czech) and a critical commentary (English)