Lullaby, B194
Opus number
–
Burghauser catalogue number
194
Date of composition
20 December 1895
Premiere - date and place
1 May 2014, Ostrava
Premiere performer(s)
Jana Kurucová, Martin Kasík
First edition
Květy mládeže magazine (supplement), 1895/1896, Prague
Author of the text
F. L. Jelínek
This Lullaby of 19 bars’ duration in the key of E major is written to a short poem by F. L. Jelínek. Dvořák wrote this miniature on 20 December 1895 at the request of the editors at Květy mládeže, in whose Christmas issue it was also published for the first time. The first known public performance of the song took place only on 1 May 2014 at the Antonín Dvořák Theatre in Ostrava.