TheArnold Schönberg Complete Edition (German:Arnold Schönberg Gesamtausgabe) is a historical-critical edition of the complete compositional works ofArnold Schoenberg, which is intended to serve both scholarship and musical practice. The edition is published bySchott Music inMainz and theUniversal Edition in Vienna.
The edition was created in December 1965 by Schoenberg's pupil and later assistantJosef Rufer at the headquarters of the Mainz music publisher Schott Music. Initially theVolkswagen Foundation was able to secure funding, until the 1980 edition was included in the state-fundedAkademienprogramm [de]. Since then it has been supervised by theAcademy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. The first volume appeared in print in 1966. The office is located in Berlin and cooperates with theArnold Schönberg Center in Vienna.[1]
TheArnold Schoenberg Complete Edition is divided into these sections:
