SCHOENBERG, Arnold 1874-1951

STEUERMANN, Eduard 1892-1964 (arr.)

[Op. 17]. Erwartung [Piano-vocal score]

(Monodram) Dichtung von Marie Pappenheim. Klavierauszug mit Text von Eduard Steuermann.

Wien: Universal Edition [PN U.E. 5362], [1924], ©1922.

Small folio. Full dark green cloth, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (title, instrumentation), 3-47, [1] (blank) pp.

Binding slightly worn and soiled; hinges partially split.

First Edition, second issue. Rufer (E) pp. 34-36. GA B/6/2, p. 98.

Erwartung, a "Monodram" to a libretto by Marie Pappenheim, was first performed in Prague at the Neues Deutsches Theater, 6 June 1924.

"In August 1909, shortly before starting work on Erwartung, Schoenberg described in letters to Busoni the ideal towards which he was then striving in his music. He wanted to leave behind him concentration on separate feelings in unreal isolation, along with the associated musical structures controlled by conscious logic, and find a means of expressing the multiplicity of contradictory feelings that can arise simultaneously from the unconscious. He had just asked a young doctor of his acquaintance, Marie Pappenheim, to write an opera libretto for him on a subject of her own choosing. It is clear from the resulting drama that she was familiar with recent psychological and psychoanalytical thought, and that she must have known about Schoenberg’s current preoccupations..." O.W. Neighbour in Grove Music Online.

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