Album Leaves
Catalogue of Works by Bedřich Smetana
Basic information
Title:
Album Leaves
Inscribed on the autograph: Stambuch-Blätter (Tonstücke nach dem Quint-Paralellenkreis in allen Tonarten) für das Pianoforte componirt und der Hochgeborenen Gräfinn Bethy von Thun und Hohenstein gewidmet von Friedrich Smetana op. 2. 1 Heft.
Title by autograph:
Stammbuch-Blätter
Subtitle by autograph:
Tonstücke nach dem Quint-Paralellenkreis in allen Tonarten für das Pianoforte componirt und der Hochgeborenen Gräfinn Bethy von Thun und Hohenstein gewidmet von Friedrich Smetana op. 2. 1 Heft
Classification according to the catalogue of J. Berkovec:
1.51
Title according to the catalogue of J. Berkovec:
Stambuchblätter
Parts/Subjects:
1. Prélude, 2. Chanson, 3. Vivace, 4. Allegro comodo, sempre marcato, 5. Moderato con anima, 6. Andante ma non troppo
Opus number:
Op. 2
Dedicant:
Note:
DBS 1857: "Stammbuchblätter, Gräfin Bethy Thun gew. 1850
I heft. 6 Stücke (bei Kistner.)"
SSD 1875: "Stammbuchblätter též u Kistner v 1850 co op. 2 věnovaný hraběnce Betty z Kauniců roz. Thůnové (bývalá žákyně moje)." [Stammbuchblätter [Album Leaves] also at Kistner in 1850 as op. 2 dedicated to Countess Betty von Kaunic, nee. Thun (a former pupil of mine).]
Cast
Instrumental cast:
Pfte
Other information
Album Leaves: piano version
Place of origin:
Prague
Date of beginning of composition:
1848
Date of composition completion:
10/1850
1st edition of the score
Publisher:
Place of publication:
Leipzig
Part of a whole:
Stambuchblatt, op. 2. no 5
Year:
1851
Note:
Smetana listed the publication in his catalog of his own compositions from 1858, which is part of his diary from 1857 (see DBS 1857), and also in his list of his own compositions from 1875 (see SSD 1875).
Critical edition
Publisher:
Place of publication:
Prague
Title of the work:
LÍSTEK DO PAMÁTNÍKU OP. 2, ČÍSLO 1 Prélude, LÍSTEK DO PAMÁTNÍKU OP. 2, ČÍSLO 2 Chanson, LÍSTEK DO PAMÁTNÍKU OP. 2, ČÍSLO 3, Viva
Part of a whole:
Klavírní dílo Bedřicha Smetany [Collected Pianoforte Works of Bedřich Smetana], 5 volumes
Name of edition:
KDBS IV (Lístky do památníku [Album Leaves]), pp. 23-38
Year:
1968
Note:
Included in: Cykly skladeb Lístky do památníku, op. 2 [Cycles of compositions Album Leaves, Op. 2]. The first four compositions are recorded in the original autograph, the other two are handwritten copies with the inscription B.S. and their original autographs bear inventory numbers 1334, 1336.