Pictures and Tales Suite

Full title	Pictures and Tales Suite for small orchestra / Bilder und Geschichten Suite für kleines Orchester
Date composed	1922
Details	Composer's orchestration in July 1922 of piano pieces of the same name (see Pictures and Tales for piano op. 2, composed 1909), originally intended for inclusion in the Pied Piper Suite. Orchestration: 2(2nd alt. Picc.),2,2,2/2,2,0,0/Timp., Trgl./Hp./Str. Performance duration: ca. 15 min.
Manuscript sources	NYPL JOB 73-159, holograph score (30 numbered pages), with title page: Bilder und Geschichten / Suite für kleines Orchester / op. 2 / Instrumentiert Juli 1922 / Karl Weigl; verso of title page gives the scoring; last movement dated at end: 15./ VII KW. See also NYPL JPG 99-2, bound manuscript [holograph?] score (41 pages); and NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 80, photocopy of a holograph score (6 folded folios) with a title page on which the original title, Pied Piper Suite, is pasted over and corrected to read: No. 1 in Pictures and Tales / 2nd version of chamber orchestra score / Karl Weigl; and below that a pencilled note, in Vally Weigl's hand: Eliminated from Pied Piper Suite because it is contained in No. 1 in U.E.’s “Pictures and Tales” (Once Upon a Time).
Publication details	Universal Edition, [1932].
Availabiity	Full score and parts available from FCP.
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