Woodwind Ensemble Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.899609 Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Arranged by C Blankenship. Romantic Period. 41 pages. C Blankenship #6210483. Published by C Blankenship (A0.899609). Serenade for wind instruments, cello and double bass in D minor (Czech: Serenáda pro dechové nástroje d moll), Op. 44, B. 77, is a chamber composition by the Czech composer AntonÃn Dvořák. The work is dedicated to the music critic and composer Louis Ehlert who praised the Slavonic Dances highly in the German press.It was created in 1878, shortly after the première of the opera The Cunning Peasant, one of fifteen compositions he submitted for the Austrian State Stipendium award. The work was first heard on 17 November 1878 at a concert exclusively dedicated to Dvořák's works, with the orchestra of the Prague Provisional Theatre (Czech: ProzatÃmnÃ). The composition was performed under the composer's baton.