Item #24283 [Op. 35]. Sechs Stücke für Männerchor. Arnold SCHOENBERG.
[Op. 35]. Sechs Stücke für Männerchor

[Op. 35]. Sechs Stücke für Männerchor

Six Pieces for Male Chorus

Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock [PNs B. & B. 19979-84], ©1930.

Large octavo. Original publisher's blue printed wrappers. 47 pp. With separate plate number to each of the six choruses and separate copyright notice to the foot of the first page of each piece.

Text underlay in German and English. German texts by Schönberg with English translations by D. Millar Craig and Adolph Weiss. Handstamp to upper wrapper: "Rezensions-Exemplar."

Bookplate of "WS" laid down to title with signature "Walter Schrenk" to right.

Wrappers split at spine. Some browning.

Together with:
An 8-page program booklet for two concerts, "Chormusik der Gegenwart," Berlin, afternoon and evening of January 31, 1932, under the auspices of the Deutscher Arbeiter-Sängerbund, including op. 35.

First Edition of the complete cycle, possible first issue. Rufer (E), pp. 58-60. GA B/18/2, pp. 223-24.

Number 4 had been commissioned by the Deutscher Arbeiter-Sängerbund and was first published as no. 248 of the anthology: Männer-Chöre ohne Begleitung, gesammelt von Alfred Guttmann (Male choruses without accompaniment, collected by Alfred Guttmann), Deutscher Arbeiter-Sängerbund Berlin [1929], publisher's no. 1350, pp. 687-90.

The musicians participating in the concert the program of which is included with the present item were those who had given the first performances: Walter Hänel and the Lendvai-Quartett Leipzig had premiered no. 4 in Berlin on November 2, 1929 and Franz Schmitt and the "13er Quartett des AGV Vorwärts" had premiered the remaining choruses in Hanau on October 24, 1931.

"And yet behind the absolute eternal values of this opus there seems to be something temporary as well: just as in the magnificent texts you reflect upon today's communal ideas [...] it also appears that you (you who have always shown the younger generation [the way]) for once wished to demonstrate something after the fact, and thereby wanted to show that such simple forms which are generally associated with cheap communal music can also lay claim to the highest standards of artistry and proficiency." Alban Berg to Schoenberg, February 1931.

Walter Schrenk (1893-1932) was the music critic of the Berlin daily Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

Item #24283

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