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Jenůfa in 1913, providing a ‘snapshot’ of the opera’s form at that point: the last
performance of the work in Brno prior to Janáček’s late revisions and those of
Kovařovic. In particular, they confirm that two passages in Act 2 Scene 3 consigned
in UE 1996 to appendices (= II/iii/200–9 and 231–6 in the present edition) formed part
of the text of the opera up to and including 1913. 35 Like the OPx parts copied in 1911,
they also contain the music of the Úvod, designated ‘Předehra’.
The remaining OPx parts (including Act 3 of bassoon 2, the individual
percussion parts and the ‘za scénou’ strings) were copied in 1916 from Kovařovic’s
revised version of the work. 36 All of these 1916 parts lack the Úvod, a sign (together
with its complete absence from the KPU vocal score) that this independent prelude
had by that time been definitively dropped from the opera.
The material contained in OPx thus falls into four chronological groups:
(1) 1903–04: bn 2 (Act 2)
(2) 1911: ob 1/cor angl, bn 2 (Act 1), vn 1 ×2 (desks 2 and 3), vn 2 (desk 1),
va, vc, db
(3) 1913/14: cl 1, cl 2 (both unused)
(4) 1916: picc, fl 1, fl 2, ob 2, cl 1, cl 2, bass cl, bn 1, bn 2 (Act 3), hn 1, hn 2,
hn 3, hn 4, tpt 1, tpt 2, trbn 1, trbn 2, trbn 3, tuba, timp, cym, xyl, trgl, vn 1
(desk 1), vn 2 (desk 2); ‘Za scénou’: vn 1, vn 2, va, vc, db
35 UE 1996, 486–91. The final revised versions of these passages (see above, ‘ŠFS’) are used as the
main text in UE 1996 on the grounds that they appear to be among Janáček’s own late, pre-Kovařovic
revisions of November 1915 (see Tyrrell 1996, xii / Tyrrell 2000, vii; see also below, §2.2).
36 The ‘Kovařovic’ version of Jenůfa was premièred at the Prague National Theatre on 26 May 1916; it
received its Brno première on 4 October that year. The following two performances in Brno (9 and 11
October) featured the celebrated Prague Kostelnička, Gabriela Horvátová (1877–1967), as several
players noted in their parts (ob 1, hn 2, hn 3, tpt 1, timp).
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