A Cartoon of Mahler

 

 

Lieder und Gesänge, vol. II

No. 4: 'Starke Einbildungskraft' – ACPV2.4

 

US-NHub Frederick R Koch Collection, FRKF 329

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  [Autograph, ink,  on brown paper front wrapper:] Heft II Nro 4 / [on blue paper panel in centre of wrapper:] N.B. Muss für beiden Ausgaben transpo / nirt werden (Anmerkung für den Setzer) /  [non-autograph on blue paper panel:] Starke Einbildungskraft. / [autograph:] Hohe Lage: C-dur  / Tiefe Lage: A-dur / [non-autograph, purple ink at bottom of wrapper:] 25184 

Date

  [5-9 Nov. 1891]

Calligraphy

  Ink [copyist: Weidig]; autograph annotations in ink (most of the dynamics are autograph additions), house editor's annotations in pencil

Paper

  A = brown paper (wrapper)
 

B = 12 staves (spaced for song), no maker's mark, upright format, 346 x 267 (r=294½)

Manuscript structure and collation

  Single bifolio stitched into a brown paper wrapper:

 

 

A 1r = front wrapper (see above for transcription)
    1v = blank
  B 2r = music starts
    2v =
  B 3r = music ends
    3v = blank
  A 4r = blank
    4v = blank
       

Provenance

 

Purchased by Frederick Koch at Sotheby's, 10 May 1984, lot 98; at one time on deposit at US-NYpm; deposited at US-NHub by the Frederick R. Koch Foundation, 1996; gift of the Frederick R. Koch Foundation and Frederick R. Koch, 2001.

Facsimiles

  None located

Select Bibliography

  SWXIII/2ah, SWXIII/2at: xiii–xv; Guide to the Frederick R. Koch Collection GEN MSS 601

Notes

  Printer's copy for the first edition, notated in B major.
   
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