Notes: | The 1st work for 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 violoncellos; based on the poem Weib und Welt by Richard Dehmel; 2nd work for voice (Sprechstimme), piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, and violoncello; words by Albert Giraud. Reprint. Originally published: Universal Edition, 1899 (1st work) and 1914 (2nd work). Includes a new editorial note, a glossary of German terms, and new English translations by Stanley Appelbaum of Schoenberg's foreward to Pierrot and the poems on which the two works are based.
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