A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46, is a work for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in 1947. The initial inspiration for the work was a suggestion from the Russian émigrée dancer Corinne Chochem for a work to pay tribute to the Holocaust victims of the German Third Reich. While the collaboration between Chochem and Schoenberg did not come to fruition, Schoenberg continued to develop the idea for such a work independently. He then received a letter from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation for a commission for an orchestral work. Schoenberg then decided to fulfill this commission with this tribute work. He wrote the work from 11 August 1947 to 23 August 1947.
Date of composition | 1947 |
Premiered | 1948, November 4th (Carlisle Gymnasium, University Campus) in Albuquerque, NM, United States |
First published | September 1949 in Long Island, NY by Bomart Music |
Dedicated to | "Dedicated to the Kussevitzky [sic] Music Foundation who commissioned it" (from manuscript score); "For the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky" (from 3rd part? of manuscript score ("3r des Particells") |
Type | Oratorio |
Tonality | Twelve-tone |
Catalogue | Op. 46 |
Approx. duration | 9 minutes |
Instruments |
Narrator, Recitant, Speaker
Male Chorus Orchestra |
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