General information
Title CZNež se naděješ [auth.]
Title ENBefore You Know
Title DEEhe du es weisst
CategoryVocal Music
SubcategoryWorks for Solo Voice and Piano
Halbreich number6
Author of lyrics/libretto Červenka, Jan
Textual incipitA tak to všecko zmizí z nenadání, než naděješ se nevíš ani jak.
InstrumentsV Pf
Origin
Place of compositionPrague
Year of origin1910
Initiation of composition1910
Completion of composition20.03.1910
First performance
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceČeské muzeum hudby
Note on the autograph depostitionCall No. Tr B 305, together with “Až budem staří”, H 10.
Copyright
Note on copyrightCopyright free
First edition
Sources
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About the composition

Než se naděješ (Before You Know), H 6, is a 1910 setting of poetry by Czech novelist, playwright and poet Jan Červenka (who died only two years before). It was influenced by more mainline late Romanticism (Brahms and Dvořák), and a vested interest in Czech national and folk-culture. The recording of the composition was released for the first time by Naxos in 2011 (Martinů: Songs, Vol. 1 – A Wreath of Carnations; Jana Wallingerová, Giorgio Koukl).

Mark Gresham, Songs, Vol. 1 – A Wreath of Carnations, Naxos 2011

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