Dvorák’s song cycle Gypsy Songs op. 55 on words by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk, were written at the beginning of 1880 at the request of the Bohemian tenor Gustav Walter, a member of the Vienna Court Opera and the work’s dedicatee. For this Urtext edition the editor Veronika Vejvodová has taken the original print as her main source. The edition appears in two volumes, one for high voice and another for low voice.