Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 (Schoenberg, Arnold)

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Original Version (String Sextet)

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Berlin: Verlag Dreililien (Richard Birnbach), n.d.(ca.1905), plate 345
Reprint - Mineola: Dover Publications, 1994
Also reissued by Eulenburg as Ed. 318

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Public Domain - Non-PD EU

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Inspired by a poem of Richard Dehmel (1863-1920)

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Large score: US CA UK DE FR - Dover coll. (reprint)
Study score: US CA UK DE FR - Dover (reprint)

Revised Version (String Orchestra)

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Second revision of 1943

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New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1943. Plate AMP 96410-34.

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Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU

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Study score: Schirmer (Hal Leonard)

Parts

Original Version (String Sextet)

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Berlin: Verlag Dreililien (Richard Birnbach), n.d.(ca.1905), plate 345
Reprint - New York: International Music Co., n.d.(after 1951), Catalog 598.

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Public Domain - Non-PD EU

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Revised Version (String Orchestra)

 Cellos I, II
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Vienna: Universal Edition, 1917, plate U.E. 6066

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Public Domain - Non-PD EU

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General Information

Work Title Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
Alternative Title Transfigured Night
Composer Schoenberg, Arnold
Opus/Catalogue Number Op.4
Number of Movements/Sections 1
Year/Date of Composition 1899
Year of First Publication ca.1905
Genre Sextet
Piece Style Early_20th_century
Instrumentation 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
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See Also
List of Compositions Featuring the Cello

Publication History

  • Original Version (String Sextet) - Score (49/51 p.) and Parts
Berlin: Verlag Dreililien (Richard Birnbach), n.d.(ca.1905), plate 345
Reissue - Vienna: Universal Edition, (ca.1907), plate U.E. 3662 (score), 3663 (parts)
Reissue - Leipzig: Ernst Eulenburg, n.d.(ca.1920), Ed. 318
Reprint - New York: International Music, 1943-present, Ed. 627 or 2156 (score), 598 (parts)
Reprint - New York: E. F. Kalmus, ca.1945-1974, KMOS 900 (score), Chamber Series 9699 (parts)
Reissues - Miami (later Van Nuys): Belwin-Mills (subs. CPP, Warner, Alfred), 1975-present, K00900
Note: Kalmus also issued an 86-page score containing both sextet and string orchestra versions with the same number.
Reprint - Mineola: Dover Publications, 1994 in Verklärte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire (full score) ISBN: 0486278859
Reprint - Mineola: Dover Publications, 2005 (study score) ISBN: 0486445372
  • Revised Version (String Orchestra) - Score (36 p.) and Parts
Vienna: Universal Edition, 1917, plate U.E. 6065 (score), 6066 (parts)
Reprint - New York (later Miami): E. F. Kalmus, ca.1945-1974, (see above)
Edited reprint - Vienna: Universal Edition, 1943, plate U.E. 14486 / New York: Associated Music, 1943, AMP 96410-34 ("revised by composer")
Reissue - Vienna: Universal Edition, 1994, ISBN: 3702420460 - Note: has a 1994 copyright claim
Reissue - Milwaukee: Hal Leonard, 1986-present, HL50237870
Edited reprint - Boca Raton: E. F. Kalmus, 1993, Ed. A7095 (ed. Clinton Nieweg, Mark Laycock)
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