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Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos
Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)]. "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Wien - Leipzig: Universal-Edition. [October, 1912]. First Edition. .

Gurre-Lieder von Jens Peter Jacobsen (Deutsch von Robert Franz Arnold) für Soli, Chor und Orchester... Partitur. [Full score]. Large folio (15 x 10 inches), disbound.  Lithographed. [PN] U.E. 3697. 1f. (title within decorative art nouveau border printed in sepia), [1]-179, [i] (blank) pp. Page 107 (between parts 2 and 3) blank, as issued, except for pagination. Printed on coated paper. Lacking outer wrappers, spine fully perished small tears to upper edge, mostly fine throughout but with last leaf separated with significant tears to edges as well as to the preceding page. Unmarked, but from the library of conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. 

A facsimile of the autograph full score, including facsimile signature and date to last page: "Arnold Schönberg Zehlendorf 7. November 1911."  First Edition, first issue, one of only 500 copies printed, with plate number U.E. 3697 to pp. 1, 96, and 108. Rufer (Engl.) pp. 78-79. Ringer p. 311. Tetsuo Satoh pp. 37-38. The piano-vocal score, prepared by Alban Berg, first appeared in 1913 (U.E. 3696). An engraved full score in large format, including a number of corrections, was published in 1920 (U.E. 6300).

First performed in Vienna on February 23, 1913, with Franz Schreker conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Choir and the Wiener Konzertvereinsorches.

"In March 1900 Schoenberg began setting Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Gurre-Lieder as a song cycle for voice and piano, for entry in a competition... However, Schoenberg soon saw wider possibilities in the text... He therefore decided to connect the songs he had already composed (those in the first two parts of the finished work) with symphonic interludes and set the whole poem as a vast cantata employing several soloists and a huge chorus and orchestra. The work depicts the love of King Waldemar and Tove under the Tristanesque imminence of death, Waldemar’s blasphemous defiance of God after Tove’s death, the nightly ride at the head of a ghostly retinue to which the king’s restless spirit is subsequently condemned, and its dismissal by the summer wind at the approach of day. Schoenberg encompassed all this in a series of tableaux of extraordinary magnificence." O. W. Neighbour in Grove Music Online.

The Danish poet Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) wrote his Gurresange in 1871. The German translation is by Robert Franz Arnold (1872-1938).

Dimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music & Arts.  These examples, many inscribed to the conductor from composers or associates, have only occasional markings from the conductor himself who committed all music to memory before his first rehearsal of the repertoire - a highly unusual method!  Some of these scores, however, were also subsequently used by James Dixon as part of his working reference library for many years and include his occasional markings.

Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)] "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos

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Schoenberg, Arnold. (1874-1951) [Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)]. "Gurre-Lieder" - From the Collection of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Wien - Leipzig: Universal-Edition. [October, 1912]. First Edition. .

Gurre-Lieder von Jens Peter Jacobsen (Deutsch von Robert Franz Arnold) für Soli, Chor und Orchester... Partitur. [Full score]. Large folio (15 x 10 inches), disbound.  Lithographed. [PN] U.E. 3697. 1f. (title within decorative art nouveau border printed in sepia), [1]-179, [i] (blank) pp. Page 107 (between parts 2 and 3) blank, as issued, except for pagination. Printed on coated paper. Lacking outer wrappers, spine fully perished small tears to upper edge, mostly fine throughout but with last leaf separated with significant tears to edges as well as to the preceding page. Unmarked, but from the library of conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. 

A facsimile of the autograph full score, including facsimile signature and date to last page: "Arnold Schönberg Zehlendorf 7. November 1911."  First Edition, first issue, one of only 500 copies printed, with plate number U.E. 3697 to pp. 1, 96, and 108. Rufer (Engl.) pp. 78-79. Ringer p. 311. Tetsuo Satoh pp. 37-38. The piano-vocal score, prepared by Alban Berg, first appeared in 1913 (U.E. 3696). An engraved full score in large format, including a number of corrections, was published in 1920 (U.E. 6300).

First performed in Vienna on February 23, 1913, with Franz Schreker conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Choir and the Wiener Konzertvereinsorches.

"In March 1900 Schoenberg began setting Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Gurre-Lieder as a song cycle for voice and piano, for entry in a competition... However, Schoenberg soon saw wider possibilities in the text... He therefore decided to connect the songs he had already composed (those in the first two parts of the finished work) with symphonic interludes and set the whole poem as a vast cantata employing several soloists and a huge chorus and orchestra. The work depicts the love of King Waldemar and Tove under the Tristanesque imminence of death, Waldemar’s blasphemous defiance of God after Tove’s death, the nightly ride at the head of a ghostly retinue to which the king’s restless spirit is subsequently condemned, and its dismissal by the summer wind at the approach of day. Schoenberg encompassed all this in a series of tableaux of extraordinary magnificence." O. W. Neighbour in Grove Music Online.

The Danish poet Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) wrote his Gurresange in 1871. The German translation is by Robert Franz Arnold (1872-1938).

Dimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music & Arts.  These examples, many inscribed to the conductor from composers or associates, have only occasional markings from the conductor himself who committed all music to memory before his first rehearsal of the repertoire - a highly unusual method!  Some of these scores, however, were also subsequently used by James Dixon as part of his working reference library for many years and include his occasional markings.

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