Note 44 — DVOŘÁK
Reading edition
The title of this overture in the original Czech is V přirodě, which is said by those who best understand that tongue to be most faithfully rendered by the German In der Natur, by which title the overture is generally known in European concert-halls. Mr. W. F. Apthorp has suggested that Dvořák "might well have chosen Schiller's
'Freude trinken alle Wesen An den Brüsten der Natur'
(All beings drink joy at Nature's breast)
as the motto for his work."