Arnold Schönberg
Pierrot lunaire
Short instrumentation: 1 0 1 0 - 0 0 0 0 - vln, vc, pno
Duration: 40'
Übersetzer: Andrew Porter, Otto Erich Hartleben
Text von: Albert Giraud
Vorwort von: Arnold Schönberg
Klavierauszug von: Erwin Stein
Dedication: Der ersten Interpretin Frau Albertine Zehme in herzlicher Freundschaft
Solos:
sprechgesang
Instrumentation details:
flute
clarinet in A
piano
violin
violoncello
Schönberg - Pierrot lunaire for speaker and 5 instrumentalists
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Arnold Schönberg
Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire - op. 21Orchestration: für eine Sprechstimme und 5 Instrumentalisten
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Arnold Schönberg
Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire for speaker and 5 instrumentalists - op. 21Orchestration: for speaker and 5 instrumentalists
Type: Studienpartitur
Language: Deutsch
Arnold Schönberg
Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire for speaker, piano, flute (piccolo),clarinet (bass clarinet), violin (viola) and cello - op. 21Orchestration: for speaker, piano, flute (piccolo),clarinet (bass clarinet), violin (viola) and cello
Type: Klavierauszug
Language: Deutsch
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“Read the preface, looked at the poems, am delighted. Brilliant idea, just my kind of thing,” noted Arnold Schönberg in his diary, after hearing of the actress Albertine Zehme’s plans to set Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire to music. Originally, Zehme had been thinking of a work for a spoken voice with a piano accompaniment, but Schönberg did not want his composer’s imagination to be limited by this. Zehme, who commissioned the piece, agreed, and each of the 21 miniatures was given its own sound colour by the instruments employed: flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello. The world première in 1912 apparently required 25 rehearsals.