Songs my mother taught me - KARAOKE / PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT - Gypsy Songs - Dvořák
Piano accompaniment of “Songs my mother taught me“ (“Když mne stará matka“), the 4th of the Gypsy Songs (“Cigánské melodie“) by Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904). The text is by Czech poet Adolf Heyduk (1835 - 1923). Original key of D major.
For a respected recording, listen to Argentinian mezzo Bernarda Fink with Roger Vignoles at the piano:
The score is available in Czech and German versions on imslp:
,(Dvořák,_Antonín)
The text with translations is available here. Interestingly, the songs were first published in German versions of the original Czech poems:
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