Baerenreiter Verlag Romance op. 11 - Dvorak/Hajek - Violin/Piano - Book

Arrangement for Violin and Piano

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Jonas Hajek
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano

• First edition of the piano version based on Dvorak's autograph
• Foreword by David R. Beveridge (Cz/Eng/Ger)
• Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor

First ever publication based on the autograph

Originally written for violin and orchestra between 1873 and 1877, Dvorak's "Romance" immediately followed his String Quartet in F minor (1873) and draws on the theme from its slow movement. He probably wrote the "Romance" for his friend, the violin virtuoso Frantisek Ondricek, who later premiered Dvorak's Violin Concerto in 1883.

This edition is the first to avail itself of the recently rediscovered autograph of Dvorak's own version for violin and piano. Compared to the well-known piano reductions, it differs from the orchestral version in several important respects and is also one bar shorter.
This new edition, containing the composer's more authentic version, can nevertheless also serve as a piano reduction to the orchestral version.

Contents:

• Preface
• Romance op. 11
• Critical Report