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
Autotranslations beta Arnold Schönberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25
Arnold Schönberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25
Arnold Schönberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25