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Suite in A "American", Opus 98b
approx. 20 minutes
3*.2.2.3* - 4.2.3.1 timp, perc(3), str
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The work:
Dvořák wrote this five-movement suite originally for piano,
shortly after his "New World" Symphony,
while at the end of his residency in the United States.
He completed the orchestration on return to Czechoslovakia.
Note, the contrabassoon is used sparingly
and only in the first movement
to double the 2nd bassoon.
We offer transposed parts:
clarinets in Bb,
horns in F,
trumpets in either Bb or C,
and tenor trombones in tenor and bass clef.
The original parts have clarinets in A with a small amount of Bb,
horns in E and F,
trumpets in E and C,
and trombones in alto clef.
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