Scottish Dances, Op. 41, B74

Opus number

41

Burghauser catalogue number

74

Date of composition

November (?) - December (?) 1877

Premiere - date and place

unknown

Premiere performer(s)

unknown

First edition

Emanuel Stary, 1879, Prague

Duration

approx. 5 min. 40 sec.

This short piano piece was written at the end of 1877 under the influence of Schubert’s piano dances Ecossaises. It has a simple formal arrangement (a series of eight-bar periods following on from one another) and distinctive rhythm. Two years later Dvorak had it published by Prague publisher Emanuel Stary.