Neatly-penned AMQS on an off-white 9.5 x 4 sheet, dated March 1, 1934, signed at the conclusion in black ink, “Mit besten Grüßen, Arnold Schoenberg.” Schoenberg lays out in four bars the twelve-tone sequence that appears in the Wind Quintet, Opus 26, labeling the sections as “Anteceding Sentence,” “Consequent Sentence,” and “Retrograde Set." Float-mounted and framed to an overall size of 17.75 x 10.25. Four vertical folds (one passing through a single letter of the signature), a few edge creases, and a small area of paper loss to the lower right corner (near but not affecting the signature), otherwise fine condition. Schoenberg fled to the United States from Austria in 1933, after the Nazi party labeled his twelve-tone technique—which involved the manipulation of an ordered series of all twelve tones in the chromatic scale—a form of ‘degenerate’ music comparable to jazz. Penned shortly after arriving in Boston to teach at the Malkin Conservatory, this piece is of the utmost desirability as it is an example of the influential form of composition that Schoenberg is best known for. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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