 Due to poor health, he produced only a condensed score; René Leibowitz, a friend, completed the score under his supervision.The work was dedicated to the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky.The connection between conductor Serge Koussevitzsky’s foundation and the Boston Symphony Orchestra led to the presumption that he and that orchestra would give the premiere, but Kurt Frederick, conductor of the Albuquerque Civic Symphony Orchestra, had heard about "A Survivor from Warsaw" and wrote to Schoenberg to ask permission to do the honors, and Schoenberg agreed, stipulating that in lieu of their performance fee the New Mexico musicians should prepare a full set of choral and orchestral parts and send those to him.