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A Survivor from Warsaw for Narrator, Men’s Chorus and Orchestra op. 46

A Survivor from Warsaw for Narrator, Men’s Chorus and Orchestra op. 46
    DATE:
  • ca. 7. Juli - ca. 10. August 1947 (Konzeption, Text und musikalische Skizzen); 11. - 23. August 1947 (Particell)
    FIRST PERFORMANCE:
  • 4. November 1948, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carlisle Gymnasium, University Campus; (Albuquerque Civic Symphony Orchestra; Dir. Kurt Frederick; Sherman Smith, Erzähler)
    APPROXIMATE DURATION:
  • ca. 7 Min.
    PROGRAMM:
  • Review of premiere in Albuquerque Journal and in Time, New York (p. 1, 2, 3)
    SOURCES:
  • ASC, MS 50, Archivnr. 943, 946-956 (Reihentabelle, Skizzen); T 50.08, T 73.16, sowie MS 50, Archivnr. 948v (Textentwürfe und Text); Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Music Division, Koussevitzky Collection (Particellreinschrift); ASC, MS 50 (Lichtpauskopie der Particell-reinschrift mit autographen Korrekturen; Partiturreinschrift von René Leibowitz)
    FIRST PRINT:
  • Bomart Music Publications, Long Island/N.Y., September 1949 (International Contemporary Series I/1; davon 100 Exemplare in einer Luxusedition mit signiertem Portrait des Komponisten)
    DEDICATION:
  • »Dedicated to the Kussevitzky [sic] Music Foundation who commissioned it« (S. 1r des Particells);
  • »For the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky« (S. 3r des Particells)
    COMPLETE EDITION / GESAMTAUSGABE:
  • Arnold Schönberg, Sämtliche Werke, Abteilung V: Chorwerke, Reihe A, Bd. 19. Chorwerke II, hrsg. v. Josef Rufer/Christian Martin Schmidt, Mainz-Wien 1975, S. 91-120; Abteilung V: Chorwerke. Reihe B, Bd. 19, Chorwerke II, hrsg. v. Christian Martin Schmidt, Mainz-Wien 1977, S. 60-81 (Kritischer Bericht, Skizzen, Fragment)
    SALES/RENTAL MATERIAL:
  • Belmont Music Publishers (USA, Canada, Mexico): Bel-1030 (score) 
  • Belmont Music Publishers (USA, Canada, Mexico): Bel-1046 (piano reducton Frederick) 
  • Belmont Music Publishers (USA, Canada, Mexico): (parts)
  • Universal Edition PH 478 (Taschenpartitur)
  • Bomart Music Publications: 12529
Additional information for this work from the Arnold Schoenberg Center.