• The first Urtext edition of Dvorák's early songs with several first publications
• Seperate volumes for high and low voice, each with detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and a Critical Commentary (Eng). This is the Low Voice edition!
• Completion of the five-volume new Urtext edition of all Dvorák’s songs for voice and piano

The volume “Songs I” of the five-volume Urtext edition of Antonín Dvořák’s complete solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs – from Dvořák’s first publicly performed, previously unpublished song “Remembering” to the five “Evening Songs”, which were published by F. A. Urbánek in 1883 and date from the composer’s mature creative period.

In many cases the exact date of composition and the original language of the songs remain unclear – some have survived only with German vocal texts. With this in mind, the editor decided to divide the edition into two parts: the 24 songs that Dvořák published in print during his lifetime are followed by seven others that have survived only in manuscript form. The order of the songs thus deliberately deviates from Burghauser’s catalogue of works and is based on the presentation that Dvořák himself determined in consultation with his publishers.

Contemporary literary sources, including singable translations, were also evaluated for the edition. For the “Songs from the Dvůr Králové Manuscript”, which Dvořák published twice, the Critical Commentary documents the variants of the first edition, thus enabling performances of both versions. Two fragmentary songs were reconstructed by Jarmil Burghauser and Jaroslav Krček.

Content:
Preface
Predmluva
Vorwort
Zu Dvoráks Lebzeiten veröffentlichte Lieder
Das Waisenkind. Ballade op. 5 B 24
Vier Lieder nach serbischen Volksdichtungen op. 6 B 29
I Das Mädchen und das Gras.
II Mahnung
III Blumendeutung.
IV Kein Entrinnen
Vier Lieder aus der Königinhofer Handschrift op. 7
I Das Sträußchen B 30/5
II Die Rose B 30/4
III Der Kuckuck B 30/1
IV Die Lerche B 30/3
Sechs Lieder aus der Königinhofer Handschrift op. 17
II Die Verlassene B 30/2
VI Die Erdbeeren B 30/6
[Abendlieder] op. 3 B 61/1–4
I Die Sterne auf dem Himmelszelt
II Mir träumt’, dass du gestorben bist
III Ich bin der Ritter aus der Mär.
IV Der Herr erschuf das Menschenherz
Vier Lieder op. 9
I Darum B 23/2
II Die Erwägung B 23/4
III Es schweigt der Blätter Abendlied B 61/5
IV Der Frühling flog aus Weitem her B 61/6
Abendlieder op. 31 B 61/7–11
I Als ich so in den Himmel sah
II Ihr winzigkleinen Vögelein
III Ich gleiche einem Lindenbaum
IV Ihr alle, die bedrückt ihr seid
V ’S Vögelein singt die Nacht hindurch
Handschriftlich überlieferte
Lieder
Zwei Lieder für Bariton B 13
Die Linden B 23/1
Hindernisse B 23/3
Erinnerung B 23/5
RozmarýnaDer Rosmarin B 24bis
So wie der Mond dem Firmament B 61/12
Critical Report