Pelleas und Melisande (Schoenberg)

Pelleas und Melisande, a Symphonic Poem for orchestra, is composer Arnold Schoenberg's earliest completed orchestral work, and his opus 5. The work was completed in February 1903, when Schoenberg was 28, and was premiered on 25 January 1905 at the Musikverein in Vienna under the composer's direction in a concert that also included the first performance of Alexander Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau[2]. Pelleas und Melisande is based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play Pelléas et Mélisande, a subject sugges ...