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Orchestra
From Smetana’s cycle
“Má vlast”
Bedřich Smetana:
Vyšehrad
Symphonic Poem
for Orchestra
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Edited by Hugh Macdonald
Full score
☞ BA 11534 · approx. € 36.95
Performance material
available on hire
To appear in May 2019
In late September 1874, shortly after losing his hearing, Smetana
started work on “Vyšehrad”, the first symphonic poem in what would
become a six-part cycle with the title “Má vlast” (My Country).
It tells the eventful history of this fort in Prague.
“Vyšehrad” was published by Urbánek together with “Vltava” (The
Moldau), the next part in the cycle, in a version for piano duet in
December 1879. The full score and parts, proofread by the composer,
followed in February 1880. Hugh Macdonald has corrected many
errors in this first edition. He draws on the autograph and first print
of the orchestral version and also refers to the autograph and printed
piano duet version.
ISMN 979-0-2601-0866-0
9790260108660
New Issue Title
• Classical masterpiece of Czech music in a new Urtext edition
• Joins the Urtext editions of “Vltava” (The Moldau), “Šárka”
and “From Bohemia's Woods and Fields”, all newly edited
by Hugh Macdonald
• Detailed Foreword by Smetana scholar Olga Mojzíšová
(Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor
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