Columbine" [from "Pierrot Lunaire"] - Autograph Musical Quotation

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Very rare AMQS, penned on the violinist's printed letterhead, in blue ink, titled "Columbine" and marked "fließende [flowing] [quarter note] (ca 126)," the opening five measures of the violin part, signed and inscribed "Rudolf Kolisch" and dated "June 15, 1971."  10.5 x 7 inches, 27 x 19 cm. In very fine condition.
Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire" ("Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"), commonly known simply as Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the Moonlight"), is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg, a setting of 21 selected poems from Albert Giraud's cycle of the same name as translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben. The work is written for reciter (voice-type unspecified in the score, but traditionally performed by a soprano) who delivers the poems in the Sprechstimme style accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. Though the music is atonal, it does not employ Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, which he did not use until 1921. Among Schoenberg's most celebrated and frequently performed works, its instrumentation – flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano with standard doublings and in this case with the addition of a vocalist – is an important ensemble in 20th- and 21st-century classical music and is referred to as a Pierrot ensemble.
The noted Viennese violinist Rudolf Kolisch began studying composition with Arnold Schoenberg in 1919, who later became his brother-in-law (1924). He put Kolisch to work in the "Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna" (Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen in Wien). This led to the creation of a string quartet ("Wiener Streichquartett") to perform both Schoenberg's music and the classical string quartet repertoire in a manner that would take into account the principles of Schoenberg's teaching. Schoenberg directed many rehearsals of this quartet. By 1927 the ensemble had become known as the Kolisch Quartet. Numerous works were written for this ensemble by composers including Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Schoenberg, and Béla Bartók and Kolisch was a major advocate of contemporary music between the two world wars. He played violin and viola in the first ever recording of Pierrot (Columbia Records, 1940), directed by the composer himself.