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All the cuts entered by 1906 into ŠVS also appear in the OP string parts.
However, the situation in these parts is complicated somewhat by the presence of two
further sets of cuts and changes made at later date. A partial revision of the violin 1
part was undertaken by the time of the opera’s revival in Brno in 1911 — the first
performances of Jenůfa since the publication of KPU, and thus the first to incorporate
its extensive revisions. But the messy task of adapting this existing part was
abandoned by the beginning of Act 1 Scene 8, together with any hope of converting
the other 1904 string parts (by far the busiest instruments in the score). Instead, a new
set of string parts was copied for the 1911 performances. 44 A further group of short
cuts in Act 1 Scene 1 common to all the OP string parts, and further changes
(including paste-overs) to the violin 1 and viola parts in Act 2 Scene 1 and the final
scene of the opera, appear to date from the pioneering Brno Radio broadcast of
extracts from the opera in May 1941. 45
Discounting these 1911 and 1941 cuts, it becomes evident that the OP string
parts were used in complete performances of the opera only until 1906. A correlation
emerges between the pre-1911 cuts in these string parts and those cuts made to ŠVS
before the ‘red’ cuts, which enables a more precise dating of these cuts than has
hitherto been possible. Whilst most appear to date from 1906, some may have been
made earlier. One such is the long cut in Act 1 of the Kostelnička’s ‘explanation aria’,
‘Aji on byl zlatohřivý’: Němcová has outlined reasons for thinking that this may have
44 These newly-copied parts — two violin 1 parts and one each of violin 2, viola, cello and double bass
— belong to OPx; see §2.1, OPx.
45 See JODA, 107. Judging from the annotations in these and other parts (the 1911 strings, and the
already converted woodwind and brass), the broadcast consisted of the first scene of each of Acts 1 and
2, and the final scene of the opera.
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