The Second String Quartet In F-Sharp Minor, OP. 10, First Edition : W. W. Norton College Books

The first miniature since 1937, created especially for this edition and meticulously edited by the author.

includes a wide array of contemporary, analytical, and critical materials:

The Score—a study-sized version of the complete score
Culture and Aesthetics—written by the editor, examining circumstances that led to Schoenberg’s composition, the quartet’s infamous premiere and the riots that followed, artistic reactions (including Kandinsky’s), the quartet’s form and design
Commentaries on the Quartet—the historical background of the work’s creation told in documents, plus analytical and critical essays that examine the piece and its reception and cultural influence

By Grant Chorley, specifically for this edition.

Severine Neff is widely recognized as a premier scholar of Schoenberg and twentieth-century harmonic practices.

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