Emil de Cou Cou has recorded extensively including world premiere recordings of Claude Debussy's original version of Printemps Suite Symphonique, the orchestral version of Suite Bergamasque, Charles Griffes's The Kairn of Koridwen, and Elliot Goldenthal's Othello (ballet). For his ongoing work with NASA de Cou was awarded the agency's Exceptional Public Achievement Medal by Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. at the NSO @ Wolf Trap performance of The Planets in July 2012, the first musician to receive that honor. Emil de Cou Emil de Cou is an American conductor who became associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (John F. Kennedy Center for
Suite for Piano (Schoenberg) Suite for Piano (Schoenberg) Arnold Schoenberg's Suite for Piano (German: ), Op. 25, is a twelve tone piece for piano composed between 1921 and 1923. The work is the earliest in which Schoenberg employs a row of "12 tones related only to one another" in every movement: the earlier "5 Stücke", Op. 23 (1920–23) employs a 12-tone row only in the final Waltz movement, and the "Serenade", Op. 24 uses a single row in its central "Sonnet". The Basic Set of the "Suite for Piano" consists of the following succession: E–F–G–D–G–E–A–D–B–C–A–B. In form and style the work echoes many features