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[Op. 18]. Die glückliche Hand Drama mit Musik ... Auszug mit Text für zwei Klaviere zu vier Händen von Eduard Steuermann. [Piano 4-hands-vocal score]
Wien: Universal Edition [PN U.E. 5669], 1923, [1924].
Folio. Full dark green cloth, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (title, instrumentation), 3-40 pp.
Together with:
A copy of the program for the first staged American performance of the work, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Tuesday April 22 with Leopold Stokowski conducting; the evening included a performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Large octavo. 4 pp. Together with a program in the League of Composers series dated February 2 announcing the April 22 concert with markings in red and lead pencil indicating that the owner may have been a music critic. Housed in pocket laid down to rear pastedown.
Binding slightly rubbed. Small tape repair and musicseller's handstamp to title; first signature split; a few small dampstains to edges.
First Edition of this arrangement, second issue (lacking printer's note to p. 40). Rufer (E), p. 36-37. GA B/6/3, pp. 88.
Die glückliche Hand [The Hand of Fate], a drama with music in one act to a libretto by the composer, was first performed in Vienna at the Volksoper on 14 October 1924, conducted by Fritz Stiedry.
"This work was begun in 1910, but much of the music, including the first and last of the four scenes, was not composed until 1912-13. Like its companion piece, Erwartung, it contains only one singing character. It is shorter, lasting only 20 minutes or so, but the action is far more complex, involving two mimed roles, a chorus and elaborate scenic effects synchronized with constantly changing coloured lighting. This last feature was also used by Kandinsky in Der gelbe Klang, but Schoenberg did not know about it at the time. His conception coincides with his own most intense period of activity as a painter." O.W. Neighbour in Grove Music Online.
Pianist and composer Eduard Steuermann was one of the central figures in Schoenberg's circle. He played the piano part in several first performances of Schoenberg's works, including Pierrot Lunaire and the Piano Concerto. From 1938 on he lived in the United States.
Item #33282
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