The work is the earliest in which Schoenberg employs a row of "12 tones related only to one another" in every movement:[citation needed] the earlier 5 Stücke, Op. 23 (1920–23) employs a 12-tone row only in the final Waltz movement, and the Serenade, Op. 24 uses a single row in its central Sonnet.
Date of composition | 1923 (1921-1923) |
Premiered | 1924, February 25th (Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal) in Vienna, Austria |
First published | 1925 by Universal Edition |
Type | Suite |
Tonality | Twelve-tone |
Catalogue | Op. 25 |
Approx. duration | 15 minutes |
Instruments | Piano |
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