• Urtext edition at the cutting edge of Dvorak scholarship
• Preface and critical commentary ( Cz ./Ger./Eng.)
• All available sources taken into account
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Dvorak’s Humoresques were meant to follow up on his earlier Scottish Dances op. 41 of 1877 (B 74) to form a series of “New Scottish Dances”, as the cycle was originally titled. Though written down over a few summer days in August 1894, these piano pieces are the result of a long period of gestation.

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