Forget-me-not Polka, B1

Opus number

Burghauser catalogue number

1

Date of composition

1854

First edition

not published yet

Duration

approx. 1 min. (the part composed by Dvorak)

This is Dvorak’s first surviving attempt at a composition work. The polka, whose main section was written by 13-year-old Dvorak, and the trio by his teacher Antonin Liehmann, appeared during the composer’s childhood spent in Zlonice and has only survived as a copy.