Copland, Aaron. (1900–1990)
Music for the Theatre. Suite in Five Parts for Small Orchestra
New York: Cos Cob Press. 1932. First edition. Full score. 33.5 cm. 71 pp. No PN. Front original green wrapper lacking, spine exposed, othewise fine. Copland Complete Catalogue (B & H), p. 14.Frst edition of an important early work by Copland. The five movements are titled Prologue, Dance, Interlude, Burlesque, and Epilogue. This work was premiered by Serge Koussevitzsky, leading the Boston Symphony, on 20 November 1925. Copland, at the time 25 years old, was at the height of his jazz-inflected modernist writing. He later helped to found the Cos Cob Press, a short-lived but significant source for the dissemination of modern American music, which carried the first editions of a number of his early orchestral works. "Copland's situation demonstrates that when Cos Cob Press entered American publishing in 1929, it met a real need." (Oja, "Cos Cob Press and the American Composer,"234). (6426)
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