A Cartoon of Mahler

 

 

Lieder und Gesänge, vol. I

No. 4: Serenade – ACV1.4

 

A-Wn Ms.Hs. 38595 Mus

 

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  [Autograph, black ink,  on brown paper front wrapper:] Heft I. Nro 4 / [autograph, on blue paper panel in centre of wrapper:] N.B. Dieses Lied muß also für beide Ausgaben / transponirt werden! / Anmerkung für / den Setzer. / [non-autograph [Weidig]: Serenade / aus „Don Juan” v. Tirso de Molina / [autograph:] Hohe Stimme:  D-dur / Tiefe Stimme : C-dur  / [non-autograph [another hand], purple ink at bottom of wrapper:] 251854

Date

  [5-9 Nov. 1891]

Calligraphy

  Ink [copyist: Ferdinand Weidig]; house editor's annotations in pencil

Paper

  A = brown paper (wrapper)
 

B = 12 staves, no maker's mark, upright format, 345 x 271 (r=293½)

Manuscript structure and collation

  Single bifolio stitched into a brown paper wrapper:

 

 

graphic using two vertical brackets to represent a gathering consisting of two nested bifolia

A 1r = front wrapper (see above for transcription)
    1v = blank
  B 2r = title page: Serenade / aus „Don Juan” von Tirso Molina.
    2v = bb. 1–19
  B 3r = bb. 20–38
    3v = blank
  A 4r = blank
    4v = blank
       

Provenance

 

Purchased at Sotheby's, 10 May 1984, lot 95

Facsimiles

  Complete colour facsimile

Select Bibliography

  SWXIII/5 , x–xi.

Notes

 

Printer's copy for the first edition, notated in D major. Mahler's annotation of the front wrapper indicates that it was at this stage that he decided to reverse the order of 'Serenade' and 'Phantasie in the published sequence (cf. AVc).

   
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