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TABLE 2.2: Layers and sources
The OP parts were in use as a complete set up until 1906, after which they were steadily
replaced by recopied parts (OPx), although the harp part remained in continuous use
throughout. For the purposes of this table, OPx is divided into two sets, OPx1 and OPx2, the
latter being those parts newly copied in 1916 from the Kovařovic version of the score (see
above, 2.1). As a ‘fixed’ printed source, KPU embodies just a single ‘layer’ of text, although
it must have been used in slightly adapted form as performance material for revivals in Brno
between 1911 and 1916 (for the latter date, in conjunction with the errata slip, ER).
Date Layer ŠFS ŠVS OP OPx1 OPx2 LB KPU Version
1903 FS1.1 Urfassung
FS1.2
1904 FS2 1904 (première version)
1905
1906 FS3.1 (‘1906’ version)
1907/8 FS3.2 1908
1911 FS4
1913
1916 FS5–6 1916 (Kovařovic version)
With their relatively few changes, the OP string parts offer the clearest clue to
the 1904 version of Jenůfa. They were used throughout the first run of performances
in 1904, as dates entered in the cello part show, whilst the viola part contains dates
from the first two of three performances given in 1906 in Moravská Ostrava (25
September) and Brno (6 and 9 October) (see APPENDIX III). All four surviving string
parts contain cuts and other alterations, concentrated for the most part in the first two
Acts; the alterations in the viola and, particularly, violin 1 are more extensive than
those in the cello and double bass (see below).
Of most help in dating the changes to the OP string parts is the letter written to
Janáček by Hrazdira on 11 July 1906 (APPENDIX II). Hrazdira proposes cuts to the
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