Serenade for String Orchestra in E major Op.22 (Full Score)

Dvorak Serenade for String Orchestra E major Op.22 (Full Score)

Dvorák’s Serenade in E major for string orchestra is one of his most popular and frequently played works.  It was written in the spring of 1875, when he had just experienced his first successes at the conductor’s podium and had received a state arts scholarship.  The score and parts were published by Bote & Bock, Berlin, in 1879.

This Urtext edition is based on the composer’s autograph score.  It corrects mistakes found in the first edition and so, for the first time, the editor incorporates omitted passages from the autograph, marking them with Vi-de.  This reconstruction makes it possible to clarify the piece’s structure.  The author of the Foreword, Katerina Nová, is head of the Dvorák Museum in Prague.

The cello parts have previously been published in older editions in the treble clef requiring them to be played an octave down. In these new editions the parts are written in bass and tenor clefs which makes them easier to read by the cellist.

- Detailed Foreword by Katerina Nová (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary by the editor (Eng)

- Including Vi-de passages from the autograph score

- Full score & parts (BA10423) available for sale

Click here for an in-depth article in the Bärenreiter online magazine [t]akte