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ŠVS Authorised copy by Josef Štross of vocal score; Act 2 dated 8 July 1902,
completed 25 January 1903; one volume, hard-bound in leather, 217 fol.,
315mm × 245mm, BmJA, A7426. 11
Separate foliation for each Act:
Act 1: 78 fol. (1–76, 78–79: original fol. 77 missing, see below) plus three
interleaved folios (see below)
Act 2: 78 fol. (numbered 1–76: two consecutive folios are numbered ‘21’ in
error; likewise two further consecutive folios are numbered ‘60’)
Act 3: 61 fol.
Used in the preparation of all performances of Jenůfa by the Brno National Theatre
from 1904 to 1906 (probably in conjunction with other vocal material in the form of
vocal parts no longer extant). The separate foliation for each Act indicates that this
manuscript originally formed three separate volumes. Dates on the final page suggest
that it was also used as the prompter’s copy for three performances in autumn 1906, in
Moravská Ostrava (25 September) and Brno (6 and 9 October). This seems also to be
confirmed by the two bell-like symbols (I and II) drawn towards the end of each
Act (as in LB, see below): these were probably used to cue a remote-alert to backstage
or front-of-house staff that the end of Act was imminent. ŠVS subsequently served as
the Stichvorlage for the 1908 KPU edition. It therefore incorporates all Janáček’s own
revisions up until December 1907, when it was sent to the Leipzig engraving firm of
Engelmann & Mühlberg. 12 Thereafter, ŠVS ceased being used as performance
material, having been superseded by KPU. As with ŠFS, Janáček’s revisions are
made in ink, with widespread use of paste-overs and erasures.
11 See also Štědroň 1966b, 518–32, and ZGJ, 74–101.
12 JYL i, 686; see also below.
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