Edition number: BA10424
ISMN: 9790260107489
Composer / Author: Dvorák, Antonín
Title: Serenade for Wind Instruments, Violoncello and Double Bass op. 44
Instrumentation in detail: Oboe (2), Clarinet (2), Bassoon (2), Contrabassoon ad libitum, Horn (3), Violoncello, Double bass
Volume / Series: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Tait, Robin
Foreword / Introduction: Beveridge, David R.
Product format: Score, Urtext edition
Scoring: Wind instruments, Violoncello, Double bass
Remark: Replaces H 1928
Publisher: Bärenreiter
Binding: Paperback
Print run: 1st printing 2016
Pages / Format: XIII, 70 S. - 31,0 x 24,3 cm
Weight: 366 g
Manufacturer Identification (GPSR):
Bärenreiter Praha s.r.o.
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130 00 Praha 3
CZECH REPUBLIC
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In 1878 Dvorák was in Vienna and was so impressed by a performance of Mozart’s Wind Serenade in B-flat major K. 361 that he wrote his own wind serenade within the space of two weeks after his return. Taking Mozart’s piece as his model, he supplemented the wind band with a bass part for violoncello and double bass.
The op. 44 Serenade, which also delighted Johannes Brahms, was issued by Dvorák’s publisher Simrock shortly after its première. Our new Urtext edition draws on this first print while using the autograph to correct a number of mistakes and above all inconsistencies in articulation.