Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) Suite für Klavier [Suite for piano] op. 25

Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951)

Suite für Klavier [Suite for piano] op. 25

Vienna: Universal Edition. XII, 1925. First Edition, second issue. 24 pp. [PN] 7627. A somewhat later issue of the first edition, published in the same year. Original pale green wrappers bound into full black cloth. Ex-library with usual labels and stamps to inner boards and endpages, the score itself affected only by a small dry stamp to the title and otherwise in very good condition throughout. Rufer p. 25-27; Ringer p. 315; Schönberg-Interpretationen I, p. 377; BSB 14, 5767; CPM 50, 389.

"Schönberg probably meant the first version of the Prelude and the Intermezzo of the Suite Op. 25 from summer 1921 to say that he had 'found something that will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years' (as his pupil Josef Rufer recorded; several other sources have also preserved his dictum) – and he was right, despite the irony that remark may contain – the “method of composing with twelve tones related only to one another” was to leave its mark on the music of the 20th century in the most diverse ways." (Eike Fess, Arnold Schoenberg Center) (6281)

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