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Fig. 2.2 ŠFS I 203v, detail, rotated right through 90º and digitally enhanced. Reproduced by
courtesy of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Vienna.
On 203v (the last music page of Act 1) is Štross’s signature preceded by an erasure.
Whilst most of this erasure is so thorough as to be effectively illegible, the last part
(directly above the left of the signature) appears to be the remainder of a date, of
which the last part is almost certainly 1900 (see Fig. 2.2 above).
Act 2 Fol. 1r contains the Act heading and scene description; the music begins on
fol. 1v. The last music side is 180r; 180v is blank. At the bottom right-hand corner of
180r (now torn off) is the hint of an erasure, perhaps originally a date. Also on the
same folio, in Janáček’s hand, opraveno | 10/1 1907 | LJ [revised 10/1 1907 LJ]. In a
series of late alterations to Scene 3 (Kostelnička–Števa), fol. 66v is pasted over with a
replacement folio copied by Václav Sedláček; the original fol. 67 has been removed;
and fol. 71 is a replacement folio, also in Sedláček’s hand. 10 Two consecutive folios
are numbered ‘102’ in error.
10 Václav Sedláček (1879–1944) was flautist in the Brno National Theatre orchestra from 1910 to 1935;
see JODA, 364. He adapted (and in some places entirely recopied) the Brno orchestral parts (OPx; see
below) for the 1916 revision of Jenůfa. His highly distinctive, idiosyncratic copying hand (see Fig. 2.3)
became a regular feature in authorised copies of Janáček scores from Brouček (I/6 and I/7) to such late
works as the Sinfonietta (VI/18), Mša glagolskaja (III/9) and Z mrtvého domu (I/11). Janáček
dedicated Pochod Modráčků [March of the Bluebirds] (VII/9; comp. 1924, pub. 1928) to Sedláček; see
JaWo, 229.
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