Nevertheless, the English title adopted in the complete critical edition of the composer's works is "The Wandering of a Little Soul".
The work remained unfinished, and today there are three sources containing the body of the composition.
In 1927 Janáček abandoned the idea of the concerto and used some of its material in the opera From the House of the Dead, particularly in the suite.
In 1928, the year of his death, Janáček composed also incidental music to Schluck und Jau, a play by the German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, which contains violin solos closely related to motives known from The Wandering of a Little Soul.
Even though the concerto remained unfinished, it contains several interesting examples of Janáček’s mature style.