Detailed Instrumentation: 2(2nd dPicc).2.2.2: 4.2.3.0: Timp.Perc(1): Str (9.8.7.6.5 in set)

Duration: 21 minutes

Description: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) composed SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS, Op. 78/ B. 70 in 1877. Written as a challenge set for Dvořák by a friend to write variations on theme that seemed impossible, the composer selected a movement from his work for unaccompanied male voices, SBOROVÉ PÍSNĚ PRO MUŽSKÉ HLASY, B. 66, as the theme – the third from the set titled JÁ JSEM HUSLAŘ (I am a fiddler). The work includes the theme statement, followed by 27 variations before the Finale. It premiered on December 12, 1877, by the Provisional Theatre Orchestra in Praque, Ludevit Prochazka conducting, and the work is still commonly programmed today. Instrumentation: 2(2nd dPicc).2.2.2: 4.2.3.0: Timp.Perc(1): Str (9.8.7.6.5 in set). Reprint of the critical edition by Otakar Šourek, Jiří Berkovec, and František Bartoš.

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