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FIRST MOVEMENT (Allegro con brio) from Symphony No. 8 in G Major – Antonin DVOŘÁK

Original transcription by BORIS KOROLYOV

prepared for FOUR solo Cellos by David Johnstone

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PDF 1 – General Score

PDF 2 – All Individual Cello Parts
(it is suggested to amplify the individual parts in paper a little bigger than ‘A4’ size for comfortable lecture)

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EXAMPLE from the main score:

Notes:

The Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, of Antonín Dvořák was composed in 1889 at Vysoká u Příbramě, Bohemia, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts. Dvořák composed and orchestrated the symphony within the two-and-a-half-month period. Dvořák conducted the premiere in Prague on 2nd February 1890.

The Eighth Symphony generally is cheerful and optimistic, and draws its lyrical inspiration from the Bohemian folk music that Dvořák loved.  It was originally published as Symphony No. 4 (see the anecdote at the end!).

The first movement opens with a lyrical G minor theme in the cellos, horns, clarinets and first bassoon with trombones playing pianissimo accompaniment, and violas and double basses pizzicato. This gives way to a “bird call” flute melody, reaching the symphony’s key of G major. Later, Dvorak writes powerfully and glowingly; the writer Peter Laki noted that the development section “works up quite a storm.” In the recapitulation, the second main theme is played by the English horn in low register. The movement ends with a “short but very energetic coda”.

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Original Transcription: Boris Korolyov
Preparation for 4 Solo Cellos: David Johnstone

Level: Difficult – advanced for all cello parts

Interesting Anecdote:

Dvořák wrote his nine symphonies over nearly three decades, between 1865 and 1893. The first of these to be published, though, was the sixth and for that reason the sixth was published as number 1. The seventh was published next and called number 2. Then, most confusingly, the fifth was then published and called number 3. The eighth and ninth (the “New World”) followed, and were called numbers 4 and 5 respectively. Only these five were published during Dvořák’s lifetime and the musical world at large was unaware of the existence of the earlier four, even though Dvořák had revised and performed some of them without them being published.

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