Lieder und Gesänge – Manuscripts

This page lists only surviving autograph and non-autograph manuscript sources (including those that have been offered for sale in recent years but whose whereabouts are currently unknown) and lost sources that have been documented, or whose earlier existence can be inferred with a significant degree of certainty..

No sketches or composition drafts for any of the songs has been located, and for all but one, the earliest surviving sources are fair copies contained in what were probably three separate collections prepared in 1891 (AVc), and a partial set of copyist's manuscripts (with autograph annotations) prepared from AVc.

Autograph material – Piano-vocal scores - Individual Songs

Volume I,

The first 22 bars of an incomplete autograph orchestration of Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz'

These manuscripts were presumably part of a complete set of fourteen sent by Mahler to Schott's on 9–10 November 1891, arriving on 13 November, and were used as the printer's copy. Ten of the set were sold as separate lots (94–103) at Sotheby's (London), on 10 May 1984; nothing is known of the history and current location of the other four manuscripts.

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