Item #24266 [Op. 21]. Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot Lunaire [Study score]. Arnold SCHOENBERG.

[Op. 21]. Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot Lunaire [Study score]

(deutsch von Erich Otto Hartleben) Für eine Sprechstimme Klavier, Flöte (auch Piccolo), Klarinette (auch Baß=Klarinette), Geige (auch Bratsche) und Violoncell (Melodramen) ... Partitur Taschenausgabe

Wien–Leipzig: Universal Edition [PN U.E. 5334. 5336], ©1914.

Small octavo. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 1f. (title), 78 pp.
Printed note to lower right corner of first page of music: "Stich und Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig."

Small English antiquarian bookseller's label laid down to verso of upper wrapper.

Disbound. Wrappers browned and detached, with slight loss to lower; spine lacking. Small stains to final page of music.

First Edition of the study score. Rufer (E), pp. 38-40. GA B/24/1, pp. 35-36.

The study score (U.E. 5336) is a photographic reduction of the full-size first edition, first issue score (U.E. 5334).

Albertine Zehme (1857-1946), an actress born in Vienna and later active in Berlin, is now exclusively remembered as the person who commissioned and first performed Pierrot Lunaire. "Read the preface, looked at the poems. I am enthusiastic. A brilliant idea, entirely in my spirit. I would do it even without a fee." Website of the Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna (Schoenberg's diary).

The poems are by the Belgian Albert Giraud (1860-1929) in the German translation by Erich Otto Hartleben (1864-1905).

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