Schoenberg Canons

In honor of Arnold Schoenberg’s recent birthday, it was the thirteenth, I present the following.

Those who set about to peruse all of Schoenberg’s work come upon the difficult issue of his canons. These appear in two publications (among others certainly), a volume from Barenreiter, the 30 Kanons, published in 1963 and the complete works edition (Schott 1980). Unfortunately these two don’t share the same numbering scheme and certain canons that are included in the Schott edition are not in the Barenreiter. What follows is a correspondence of the Barenreiter numbers to the Schott numbers. I’ve included the common name, when there is one, the Schott number, the Barenreiter number and a presumed date for the composition.
Some are recorded, but many aren’t. The recordings include Craft’s survey (only available on LP) , some on a Boulez recording, others on an obscure recording by Les Jouers de Flute and finally others on a saxophone album by Marcus Weiss on Hat Art called “Conquest of Melody.”
For more information see Wayne Shoaf’s spectacular discography.

Canon Name	Date	Schott Number	Barenreiter Number
Eyn doppelt Spiegel- und Schlüssel-Kanon	2/16/22	1	3
-	4/20/26	2	4
Von meinem Steinen	12/25/26	3	5
Arnold Schoenberg Begluckwunscht herzlicht Concert Gebouw	3/7/28	4	6
Dreistimmiger Kanon	4/8/28	5	7
-	4/1/31	6	8
-	12/15/31	7	9
Spiegle Dich im Werk	Dec. 1933	8	10
Doppelkanon (in der Unterquint) im Spiegelbild	12/27/32	9	12
-	4/14/33	10	15
-	4/14/33	11	16
Jedem geht es so	4/14/33	12	13
Mir auch ist es so ergangen	4/14/33	13	14
-	12/10/33	14	17
-	3/10/34	15	18
-	3/12/34	16	19
-	3/12/34	17	20
Wer mit der Welt laufen will	7/30/34	18	21
Es ist zu dumm	9/1/34	19	22
-	9/3/34	20	n/a
-	[1934]	21	n/a
-	[1934]	22	n/a
-	[1934]	23	n/a
fur Alban Berg	2/9/35	24	n/a
fur Charlotte Dieterle	11/15/35	25	23
-	1/22/36	26	24
-	[1938]	27	25
Mister Saunders I owe you thanks	12/25/39	28	26
-	6/7/43	29	27
I am Almost Sure	3/12/45	30	28
fur Thomas Mann	7/6/45	31	29
Gravitationszentrum eigenen Sonnensystems	8/1/49	32	30
-	undated	33	11