Berceuse for English Horn & Piano - EH/PN (PDF)

Berceuse - PDF
for English horn and piano
by Josef Růžek (1834-1891) French composer, administrator, and violist.

arranged by Trevor Cramer

Josef Růžek was a composer of the romantic era. He was second conductor of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and known as a composer of mostly choral music.

In the estate of a Duisburg symphonist, the clarinetist and basset horn playerHeinrich Fink, there was an incomplete orchestral edition of "Berceuse". 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 were also available.

On two handwritten copies of the first and second violin, written on February 2nd in 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.

This modern edition (2025) retains all of Rů žek’s notations along with a few minor editorial additions or corrections.