Antonín Dvořák

Lieder 1

The volume "Lieder I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of all Antonín Dvorák's solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs - from Dvorák's first publicly performed, previously unpublished song "Erinnerung" to the five "Abendlieder", which were published by F. A. Urbánek in 1883 and date from the composer's mature creative period.

Both the exact date of composition of the songs and their original language often remain unclear - some songs are preserved exclusively with German vocal texts. Against this background, the editor has decided to divide his edition into two parts: The 24 songs that Dvorák published in print during his lifetime are followed by seven others that have only survived in manuscript. The arrangement thus deliberately deviates from the Burghauser catalog raisonné and is based on the presentation that Dvorák himself determined in exchange with his publishers.

Contemporary literary sources, including singable translations, were also evaluated for the edition. In the case of the "Songs from the Königinhof Manuscript", which Dvorák published twice, the Critical Report documents the variants of the first edition and thus enables performances of both versions. Two fragmentary surviving songs were reconstructed by Jarmil Burghauser and Jaroslav Krcek.