Full score. Upright folio. 12 x 9 inches; 32 x 24 cm. 60 pp. Lithographed/ [PN] 9663. The copy of the conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, signed on the front cover in blue ink D. Mitropoulos" and again "Dimitri Mitropoulos" to the front of a later card outer wrapper into which the score has been bound. Approx. 10 leaves separated, some (and others) with small losses to the lower left inside margin, and light wear to the outer edges. Rufer p. 12. First edition, first issue of the conductor's score with the legal text on the verso of the title page and with the individual titles supplied in pencil in the hand of Mitropoulos. 

"It was only while the work was being prepared for publication by C.F. Peters in Leipzig in 1912 that Schoenberg—at the publisher's request—considered programmatic titles for the individual pieces. A diary entry from January 28, 1912, records his thoughts: "On the whole, the idea does not appeal to me. For the wonderful thing about music is that one can say everything, so that the knowledgeable listener understands everything, and yet one’s secrets—those one admits only to oneself—are not blabbed out. A title, however, blabs." The first edition of the score was ultimately published without the titles Schoenberg had initially intended (I. Premonitions, II. The Past, III. Chord-Colors, IV. Peripetia, V. The Obligatory Recitative). Following the premiere—conducted by Sir Henry Wood in London on September 3, 1912—and another performance under Schoenberg’s own baton, he decided to revise the work; this version was first performed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on December 7, 1922. Schoenberg produced a further revision—or rather, an arrangement for reduced instrumentation—in 1949." (Iris Pfeiffer, Arnold Schönberg Center [translated])