The Wild Duck, B140

Opus number

N/A

Burghauser catalogue number

140

Date of composition

September 1884

Dvořák set his song The Wild Duck to a Czech folk text (or its German or English translation) in September 1884 as a commission from J. W. Coates, the publisher of the English journal Magazine of Music. However, the song was ultimately never printed in the journal and its autograph is now missing.