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Dvorak - Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5 (HEN)

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Dvorak - Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5 (HEN)
Price:
19.17 USD
Instrument:
Cello
Sub Instrumentation:
Cello & Keyboard
Composer:
Dvořák, Antonín
Dvorak, Antonin
Dvorák, Antonín
Dvorák, Antonin
Dvorak, Antonín
Publisher:
Henle
Editor/Arranger:
Pospísil, Milan
ISBN/ISMN:
M201806211
RCM Grade:
TC
SKU:
DVORA062

Dvorák had previously written solo music for Hanus Wihan, later the dedicatee of his cello concerto. When he was planning a trio concert tour for 1892 with Wihan and violinist Ferdinand Lachner and needed further works for cello and piano, he reworked "Silent Woods" for cello and piano during the Christmas holidays of 1891. Originally a four-hand piano piece from his cycle "From the Bohemian Forest", the cantabile character piece became a popular recital item owing to its sonorous cello sound. Dvorák later arranged it as an effective concert piece for violoncello and orchestra. The first edition of 1894 is the basis for editor and Dvorák specialist Milan Pospisil's Urtext edition for violoncello and piano.

Urtext
Fingering and Bowing by Klaus Shilde and Rainer Ginzel