The composer of the romantic era Josef Ružek was born
in 1834 and died in 1891, was second conductor of the
Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and known as a
composer of male choirs.In the estate of a Duisburg
symphonist, the clarinetist and basset horn player
Heinrich Fink, there was an incomplete orchestral
edition of "Berceuse" by Josef Ružek. Unfortunately,
the solo part was missing. There were printed parts of
the strings, a flute, two clarinets, a bassoon and two
horns from the Edition Lo...(+)
The composer of the romantic era Josef Ružek was born
in 1834 and died in 1891, was second conductor of the
Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and known as a
composer of male choirs.In the estate of a Duisburg
symphonist, the clarinetist and basset horn player
Heinrich Fink, there was an incomplete orchestral
edition of "Berceuse" by Josef Ružek. Unfortunately,
the solo part was missing. There were printed parts of
the strings, a flute, two clarinets, a bassoon and two
horns from the Edition Louis Oertel, Hannover, printed
by W. Bennicke, Leipzig (plate no. L. 4431 0).
Handwritten copies of voices were also available.
On two handwritten copies of the voices of the first
and second violin, written on February 2nd, 1915 by
Anton Koghee from Witten, the title is "Berceuse for
basset horn solo". A search carried out in 2017 showed
that the work in question was available in the music
department of the City Library in Prague, where it was
printed for violoncello or cor anglais and piano
(signature VN 37557). Apparently in 1915 an unknown
clarinetist had rewritten the one-movement work for the
basset horn originally written for cello or cor
anglais.
In this edition we have adopted both the cor anglais
part and the sometimes deeper cello part in ossia
notation. The Berceuse can now be played either with
piano accompaniment or with an orchestra.
