Lieder und Gesänge – Printed Editions

For the foreseeable future the historical printing and publication records of in the Schott Archive are inaccessible, pending conservation and reorganisation, so no information about the dates and sizes of print runs prepared by that company is available. The dating of individual copies is in any case difficult because – unlike firms such as Universal Edition and Edition Peters – Schott did not date-code adverts on its publications. So the conjectural dating of impressions offered below is based on differences in physical features, price, publisher's imprint and advertisements: the basis for the dating proposed for an individual copy (or group of copies) is outlined in the relevant entry and the footnotes and an overview of the types of evidence adduced is given on the Schott page.

Despite Ludwig Strecker's indication that copies of individual songs might be published after the first edition had sold out (FWGMV, 89–90), and the assignment of separate plate numbers to each song, this appears not to have happened to any great extent up to 1914: the songs were mainly disseminated in the six collective volumes (three each for high and low voice) listed below. After the first printing of all six in early 1892 reprints of individual volumes were presumably ordered as required to replenish stocks, so the existence of copies of one state of an individual volume with a particular combination of bibliographic features does not necessarily imply that copies of the other five volumes with the same combination of features were necessarily printed at the same time and the UE printing records for 1913-1939 (a period when the songs were 'In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen') give good grounds for not drawing such a conclusion.

This uncertainty over the pattern of publication by Schott necessitates a modification in the formation of sigla. Thus in PVct1a.2 the six elements are:

1. PV= [publication format:] printed voice and piano score

2. c  = collective publication

3. t   = tief (i.e. low voice) [h = high voice]

4. 1  = edition

5. a  = impression

6. 2  = volume number

Title Page: [Black on white, see facsimile]: Lieder und Gesänge / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volume contents in decorative frame] / von Gustav Mahler / [left:] Heft [I, II or III], für hohe Stimme [right:] Heft [I, or III], für tiefe Stimme [the GB-Lbl copy lacks the volume numerals in all three] / [decorative publisher's imprint:]

Imprint 1 (1892–c.1894?[1])

Wrapper: [fwr = title page, fwv, bwr and bwv = adverts; for details see facsimiles]

Wrapper colours: Vol. I = black on light green; vol. II = black on yellow; vol. III = black on lilac [GB-Lbl: I: black on grey-green; II: violet; III: black on yellow-green] [This is surely a different impression]

Analysis:

vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=advert

vol. II: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=advert

vol. III: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=advert

Dimensions: vol II: 348 x 279 (p. 2: r=224)

GB-Lbl: I: 344 x 280 (p. 3: r=194); II: 344 x 279 (p. 2: r=224); III: 344 x 279 9p.2 r=209)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: v.1892    Prices: vol. I: Mk 2,50; vol. II: Mk 2,50; vol. III: Mk 3.

Edition number: none    Plate number: vol. I: 25183, 1[–5]h; vol. II: 25184, 1[–4]h; vol. III: 25185, 1[–5]h

Contents:

Heft I

2

G minor–A minor

Serenade (mit Begleitung von Blasinstrumenten), (aus „Don Juan” von Tirso de Molina)

Heft II

Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Heft III

Copies: A-Wn MS 67490 (= Anna von Mildenburg’s set, vols II and III with stamp of August Böhme, Hamburg; no markings); vol. I only: US-Wc M1621.M (signed and dated 1905); US-CSu MLM  627 (with autograph inscription dated 8 Februar 92); GB-Lbl H.2665.b.(1.) (red date stamp: 15 MAR 84); vol. II only: GB-Lpc (ex coll. Clotilde Hiele, Karl Ludwigstrasse 62, Wien).

The engraving and proofing of the music text appears to have been completed in December 1891, but a proof of the title page (which was also the basis of the the front wrapper) was not sent to Mahler until mid January 1892 (FWGMV, 89). Thereafter the production of the initial print-run was swiftly completed and the composer was surprised by the large number of copies he was sent early in February (FWGMV, 92): he offered to return most of the surplus copies. However, the songs were not listed in the Hofmeister Monastbericht until May 1892.

From Mahler's letters it is clear that the engraving (and therefore, presumably, the printing) was undertaken by the Leipzig firm of Oscar Brandstetter, but this is not acknowledged in copies of the first printing.

The use of a passe-partout title page failed to avoid complications: it was clearly the intention that not only would the wrapper paper for each of the three volumes be different, but that the text line below the composer's name and above the publisher's imprint modified (by appropriate printed underlining) to indicate the number and the voice range: see the facsimile, but note  the error in the right-hand portion of the line ('III' instead of 'II'), and also the commentary to  PVc1t below. In later issues (see xxxx below) the addition of the volume number and underlining was abandoned.

The designation of 'Hans und Grethe' as a Volkslied, a non-autograph addition to ACV1.3, appears only on the wrapper and title page, not on the song itself and similarly (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) is omitted from the heading of 'Zu Strassburg of der Schanz'': in all other cases the song title is followed by an indication of the source of the text).

Title Page: [Black on white, see facsimile]: Lieder und Gesänge / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volume contents in decorative frame] / von Gustav Mahler / [left:] Heft [I, II or III], für hohe Stimme [right:] Heft [I, II or III], für tiefe Stimme / [decorative publisher's imprint:]

Imprint design 1 (1892–c.1894?[1])

Wrapper: [fwr = title page, fwv, bwr and bwv = adverts; for details see facsimiles]

Wrapper colours: Vol. I = black on light green; vol. II = black on yellow; vol. III = black on lilac]

Analysis:

vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=advert

vol. II: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=advert

vol. III: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=advert

Dimensions: 348 x 279 (vol. II, p. 2: r=22.4); GB-Lb  (vol. I): 344 x 275 (p. 3 r=194)

vol I: B. SCHOTTS SÖHNE parallel with bottom edge of each folio;  MAINZ parallel with the top edge of each as printed;

vol. II: B. SCHOTTS SÖHNE parallel with top edge of each folio;  MAINZ parallel with the bottom edge of each as printed

vol. III: ?

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iii.1892

Edition number: none    Plate number: vol I: 25183, 1[–5]t; vol. II: 25184, 1[–4]t; vol. III: 25185, 1[–5]t

Contents:

Heft I

2

F minor–G minor

Serenade (mit Begleitung von Blasinstrumenten), (aus „Don Juan” von Tirso de Molina)

Heft II

Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Heft III

Copies: vol. I only: GB-Lbl  H. 2665.b.(2.) (Lacking wrappers); GB-Lpc.

The engraving and proofing of the music text appears to have been completed in December 1891, but a proof of the title page (which was also the basis of the the front wrapper) was not sent to Mahler until mid January 1892 (FWGMV, 89). Thereafter the production of the initial print-run was swiftly completed and the composer was surprised by the large number of copies he was sent early in February (FWGMV, 92): he offered to return most of the surplus copies.

From Mahler's letters it is clear that the engraving (and therefore, presumably, the printing) was undertaken by the Leipzig firm of Oscar Brandstetter, but this is not acknowledged in copies of the first printing.

The designation of 'Hans und Grethe' as a Volkslied, a non-autograph addition to ACV1.3, appears only on the wrapper and title page, not on the song itself; similarly the source of the text is omitted from the heading to 'Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz' (in all other cases the song heading is followed by an indication of the source of the text).

Title Page: [Black on white, see facsimile]: Lieder und Gesänge / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volume contents in decorative frame, with lower prices] / von Gustav Mahler / [left:] Heft [blank] für hohe Stimme [right:] Heft [blank] für tiefe Stimme / [decorative publisher's imprint:]

Imprint design 2 (1909–?[2])

Wrapper: [fwr = title page but with imprint design 3a, fwv = blank, bwr = blank and bwv = advert (Hans Herman Lieder [without prices]); for details see facsimiles. The paper is laminated: the outer sheet is yellow mottled with blue fibres, the inner sheet is cream]

Imprint design 3a

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=advert (Reger songs: no prices except for op. 14a)

Dimensions: 336 x 265 (r=222)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none    Plate number: 25184, 1[–4]t

Contents: as listed for PVc1t.2

Copies: GB-Lpc.

The copyrights in the Reger vocal works advertised on p. [16] were all originally owned by the London firm, Augener Ltd. This business was purchased by Willi Strecker in 1910 and passed to B. Schott's Söhne Mainz (i.e. not Schott & Co.) in 1913, though this ownership was forfeited at the start of WWI. At what date Schott's in Mainz began advertising their newly-acquired Reger vocal works is uncertain, nor is it known when they removed from the imprint design the reference to their appointment as publishers to Edward VII.

Title Page: [Black on white, see facsimile]: Lieder und Gesänge / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volume contents in decorative frame, with lower prices] / von Gustav Mahler / [left:] Heft [blank] für hohe Stimme [right:] Heft [blank] für tiefe Stimme / [decorative publisher's imprint:]

Imprint design 3b (1902–?)

Wrapper: [fwr = title page but with imprint design 2, fwv = blank, bwr = blank and bwv = advert (Hans Herman Lieder [with prices]); for details see facsimiles. The paper is laminated: the outer sheet is yellow mottled with blue fibres, the inner sheet is cream]

Imprint design 2 (1909–?[2])

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=advert (Reger songs: no prices)

Dimensions: 337 x 265 (r=213)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none    Plate number: 25185, 1[–5]h

Contents: as listed for PVc1t.3

Copies: GB-Lpc

The copyrights in the Reger vocal works advertised on p. [20] were all originally owned by the London firm, Augener Ltd. This business was purchased by Willi Strecker in 1910 and passed to B. Schott's Söhne Mainz (i.e. not Schott & Co.) in 1913, though this ownership was forfeited at the start of WWI. At what date Schott's in Mainz began advertising their newly-acquired Reger vocal works is uncertain, nor is it known when they removed from the imprint design the reference to their appointment as publishers to Edward VII.

Title Page: [Black on white, see facsimile]: Lieder und Gesänge / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volume contents in decorative frame, with lower prices] / von Gustav Mahler / [left:] Heft [blank] für hohe Stimme [right:] Heft [blank] für tiefe Stimme / [decorative publisher's imprint: design 2].

Wrapper: [fwr = title page with imprint design 2], fwv = blank, bwr = blank and bwv = advert (Hans Herman Lieder [without prices]); for details see facsimiles. The paper is laminated: the outer sheet is yellow mottled with blue fibres, the inner sheet is cream]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=advert (Beliebte Lieder..., including the Reger songs but with no prices)

Dimensions: 336 x 265 (r=22.2)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none    Plate number: 25184, 1[–4]t

Contents: as listed for PVc1t.2

Copies: GB-Lpc

The copyrights in the Reger vocal works advertised on p. [16] were all originally owned by the London firm, Augener Ltd. This business was purchased by Willi Strecker in 1910 and passed to B. Schott's Söhne Mainz (i.e. not Schott & Co.) in 1913, though this ownership was forfeited at the start of WWI. At what date Schott's in Mainz began advertising their newly-acquired Reger vocal works is uncertain, nor is it known when they removed from the imprint design the reference to their appointment as publishers to Edward VII.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located, but see also the notes to PVct1d.

Title Page: [Dark blue on cream within double rectangular border, see facsimile]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper (see facsimiles): black text within standard UE violet border on light green card:] [Top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] N^o 3954^b. / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / I [II or III] / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [lowest shield:] TIEF

[Back wrapper (see facsimiles): Catalogue of works by Gustav Mahler available from Universal-Edition; date code, vol. III: Y III 1913; vols I-II: IV 1913]

Analysis:

vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=blank

vol. II: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=blank

vol. III: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=blank

Dimensions: vol. III: 310 x 235 (p. 2: r=220)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 3945b.    Plate number: vol I: 25183, 1[–5]h; vol. II: 25184, 1[–4]h; vol. III: 25185, 1[–5]h

Contents:

Heft I

2

G minor–A minor

Serenade (mit Begleitung von Blasinstrumenten), (aus „Don Juan” von Tirso de Molina)

Heft II

Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald (Aus: „Des Knaben Wunderhorn”)

Heft III

Copies: D-B Mus. Km 12/3; vol. II only: GB-Lpc

From 1910 onward Universal Edition gradually either acquired the copyright or at least joint distribution rights for all of Mahler's original works, and by mid 1913 - as the advertisement on the rear cover of this publication makes clear - with one exception (the Fifth Symphony) that goal had been achieved. The details of the agreement with Schott over the Lieder und Gesänge is unclear, apart from the note in the UE Verlagsbuch: 'Original Verlag Schott UE hat nur Mitvertrieb' ('Original [owned by] Edition Schott UE only has joint marketing'). The music text was derived directly from the original plates engraved for Schott's by Brandstetter, but whether it was printed in Mainz or Vienna is unknown; the wrappers were presumably printed in Vienna.

According to the UE Verlagsbuch, all six volumes were printed in the spring of 1913 and delivered on 10 May. It appears that it was for this issue of the songs that, with no authority, the subtitle 'Aus der Jugendzeit' was added.

Copies: No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located

This was the only volume of the second issue to be reprinted before 1918.

Copies: No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located

Copies: No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located

Copies: No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located

No copies that can be firmly associated with this impression has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. This impression was planned at the same time as PVch1f.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

Title Page: [Black on cream within double rectangular border]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: dark green text within rectangular UE dark green border on green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / I [II III] / HOCH / [lyre design] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr 3952a [3953^A; 3954a]

[Back wrapper not present in GB-Lbl set]

Analysis:

Vol. I:  [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=blank

Vol. II: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=[blank]

Dimensions:

Vol. I: [copy trimmed for binding] (p. 3: r=194)

Vol. II: [copy trimmed for binding] (p. 2: r=224)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: vol. I: 3952a.; vol. II: 3953^A    Plate number: vol. I: 25183, 1[–5]h; vol. II: 25183, 1[–4]h

Copies: GB-Lbl G.1033 (bound copy; red date stamp, vol. I, II: p. 16,  23 MR 1923)

This British Library partial set (vol. III is a copy of the low voice issue, probably PVct1h) is conjecturally associated with this impression this issue on the basis of the library date stamp. It seems unlikely that the impressions of the three volumes were planned as a coordinated reprint of the high voice set of volumes. This impression included the last UE printing of volume I before 1938.

Title Page: [Black on cream within double rectangular border]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: dark green text within rectangular UE dark green border on green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / II [I III] / TIEF / [lyre design] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr 3954a

[Back wrapper not present in GB-Lbl copy]

Analysis:

Vol. III: [1]=tp; 2–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–12=3; 13–16=4; 17–19=5; [20]=blank

Dimensions:

Vol. III: [copy trimmed for binding] (p. 2: r=219)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: vol. III: 3954b    Plate number: vol. III: 25185, 1[–5]t

Copies: GB-Lbl G.1033 (bound copy; vol. III only; red date stamp, p. 20,  23 MR 1923)

This British Library copy (bound with copies of high-voice impressions of vols I and II (PVch1h)) is conjecturally associated with this impression on the basis of the library date stamp.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. This was the last UE printing of volume II, high voice, before 1938.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. There is no entry under copies received so it is possible that the order was cancelled before fulfilment.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. Uniquely there is a separate order listed on 14.iv.1931 for the printing of 200 wrappers. This was the last UE printing of volume III, high voice, before 1938.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. The copies are listed as having been delivered in two batches.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. This was the last UE printing of volume III, low voice, before 1938.

No copy that can be firmly associated with this issue has been located. This was the last UE printing of volume I, low voice, before 1938: a further batch of 10 copies was ordered on 10.xi.1936 but marked 'nicht geliefert' [not delivered].

The significance of these very small print runs in the early 1930s is unclear, and the date that the collaboration between Edition Schott and UE came to an end is not known, though it is worth noting that the 1937 UE Gesamt-Katalog and the English-Language UE catalogue for 1938/9 (apparently printed in July 1938) both list the Lieder und Gesänge alongside the rest of Mahler's songs:

Fig. 1. Universal Edition 1937/38 ([Vienna: Universal Edition], 1937), p. 14

Fig. 2. Universal Edition 1938/39 ([Vienna: Universal Edition], 1938), p. 21

The following descriptions are of copies that cannot be associated with any of the impressions listed above, and are listed here in a conjectural chronological sequence.

FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue, unidentified impression, vol. I, low voice – Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [inter 1914–1920?]

Title Page: [Black on cream within double rectangular border, see facsimile]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper (see facsimiles): black text within standard UE violet border on light green card:] [Top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] N^o 3954^b / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / I / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [lowest shield:] TIEF

[Back wrapper (see facsimiles): Advertisement of 'classical and instructive works for piano'; no date code]

Analysis: vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=[blank]

Dimensions: 308 x 239 (p. 3: r=194)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 3945b.    Plate number: 25183, 1[–5]h

Copies: GB-Lpc

The title-page design is that of the first impression but in black not dark blue; the front cover design is the standard used until the early 1920s and the highest edition number advertised on the back cover is 3078 (c.1912). The quality of the paper suggests an earlier rather than a later date.

FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue, unidentified impression, vol. II, high voice – Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [inter 1920–1922?]

Title Page: [Black on cream within double rectangular border, see facsimile]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper (see facsimile): dark green text within rectangular UE violet border on green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / II / GESANG UND KLAVIER / HOCH / [lyre design] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr 3953a

[Back wrapper: blank; no date code]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=6; 6–9=7; 10–13=8; 14–15=9; [16]=[blank]

Dimensions: 305 x 237 (p. 2: r=224)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 3953a.    Plate number: 25184, 1[–4]h

Copies: GB-Lpc

The title-page design is the standard rectangular format introduced in the early (?) 1920s.

Title Page: [Black on cream within double rectangular border, see facsimile]: 14 LIEDER und GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / für / eine Singstimme und Klavier von / GUSTAV MAHLER / [list of volume contents] / Eigentum der Verleger / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE, MAINZ / In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper (see facsimile): dark green text within rectangular UE violet border on green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 14 LIEDER UND GESÄNGE / (AUS DER JUGENDZEIT) / 14 SONGS FROM THE DAYS OF YOUTH / III  / HOCH  HIGH / [lyre design] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr 3954a

[Back wrapper: blank; no date code]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=blank

Dimensions: 310 x 241 (p. 2: r=219)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 3954a.    Plate number: 25185, 1[–5]h

Copies: GB-Lpc

The title-page design is the standard rectangular format introduced in the early (?) 1920s, but with the title and voice type in German and English; the sung text remains in German only.

FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue, unidentified impression, vols I, III, low voice – Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [?]

Title Page: [Black on white paper, see facsimile]: GUSTAV MAHLER / Lieder und Gesänge / für eine Singstimme und Klavier / [list of volumes and edition numbers] / B. SCHOTT's SÖHNE · MAINZ / Im Mitvertrieb der Universal Edition A.G., Wien.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper (see facsimile): dark green text on light green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER /  LIEDER UND GESÄNGE /  I [III] / tief / UE 3952b / UNIVERSAL EDITION

[Back wrapper: blank, no date code]

Analysis:

vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–5=1; 6–8=2; 9–11=3; 12–13=4; 14–15=5; [16]=contents

vol. III: [1]=tp; 2–5=10; 6–8=11; 9–12=12; 13–16=13; 17–19=14; [20]=contents

Dimensions: 302 x 232 (vol. I, p. 3: r = 182; vol. III, p. 2: r = 207)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 3942b.; 3954b   Plate number: [vol. I, p. 15 only:] 25183, t; [vol. I, p. 19 only:] 25183, t

Copies: GB-Lpc

This is probably a post-WWII impression.

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES - SINGLE SONGS

No. 7: 'Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald'

Heading: [Within header design:] BEILAGE ZUM KUNSTWART / [l.h.] GUSTAV MAHLER. / [r.h.] „ICH GING MIT LUST DURCH / EINEN GRÜNEN WALD” / aus: Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

This was published 'with special permission of the publisher B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz', as a supplement to Der Kunstwart, 17/8 (17 Jan 1904), Munich, Georg D.W. Callwey, 1904, and was entirely re-engraved.
 

Hofmeister: x.1908    Price: Mk 1

Title Page: ?

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: black on pale blue, linen-texture paper] ?

[Back wrapper: ?]

Hofmeister: v.1920    Price: Mk 1

Hofmeister: v.1920    Price: Mk 1

No. 8: 'Aus! Aus!'

This was published 'with special permission of the publisher B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz', as a supplement to Der Kunstwart, XIX/19 (19 Feb 1906), Munich, Georg D.W. Callwey, 1904, and was entirely re-engraved.
 

PRINTED ARRANGEMENTS

PRINTED ORCHESTRATIONS - SINGLE SONGS

Vol. I, no.1: Frühlingsmorgen

Title Page: [Black on white]: GUSTAV MAHLER / Frühlingsmorgen / <R. Leander> / [star] / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert / von / Robert Heger / [left, between two rules:] B. Schott’s Soehne / [centre: shield] / [right, between two rules:] Mainz und Leipzig.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: black on mottled grey, with orange shield in the centre:] GUSTAV MAHLER / Frühlingsmorgen / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert von / Robert Heger / [shield] / Partitur / B. Schott’s Soehne, Mainz

[Back wrapper: ?]

Analysis: [i]=tp; [ii]=[blank]; [1] Besetzung des Orchesters; 2–7=[music]; 8=[adverts]

Dimensions: 338 x 275 (p. 2: r=250)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from manuscript

Hofmeister: x.1927     Price: hire only

Edition number: none    Plate number: 31861

Copies: D-B 207468 (not examined); US-Wc M1615.M22 F5 [no accession date]

Vol. I, no. 3: Hans und Grete

Title Page: [Black on white]: GUSTAV MAHLER / Hans und Grete / [star] / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert / von / Robert Heger / [left, between two rules:] B. Schott’s Soehne / [centre: shield] / [right, between two rules:] Mainz und Leipzig.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: black on mottled grey, with orange shield in the centre:] GUSTAV MAHLER / Hans und Grete / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert von / Robert Heger / [shield] / Partitur / B. Schott’s Soehne, Mainz

[Back wrapper: ?]

Analysis: [i]=tp; [ii]=[Orchestra list]; [1]–9=[music]; 9=[blank]; 10=[adverts]

Dimensions: 340 x 275 (p. 1: r=249)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from manuscript

Hofmeister: x.1927    Price: hire only

Edition number: none    Plate number: 31860

Copies: D-B 207467 (not examined); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting 418 (Mengelberg's copy, with annotations in blue and red); US-Wc M1615.M22 H2 [accession date: 27.viii.1927]

Orchestral parts available only on hire were also listed in Hofmeister (x.1927).

 Vol. II, no. 2: Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald

Title Page: [None: p. 1 is headed:] Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald / <Aus: "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"> / G. MAHLER / Instr. von L. Windsperger.

Wrapper: [None]

Analysis: 1–16=[music]

Dimensions: 340 x 275 (p. 1: r=249)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from manuscript

Hofmeister: x.1918    Price: M. 5,00 (score); M. 7,50 (parts)

Edition number: none    Plate number: 31860

Copies: D-B Mus. Km. 25; NL-DHgm 54 B 194

The copies provide no publication details. The score bears the note: Das Stück kann auch für Orchester allein (ohne Singstimme) ausgeführt werden. Dating from the D-B catalogue.

Vol. III, no. 3: Scheiden und Meiden

Title Page: [Black on white]: GUSTAV MAHLER / Scheiden und Meiden / [star] / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert / von / Robert Heger / [left, between two rules:] B. Schott’s Soehne / [centre: shield] / [right, between two rules:] Mainz und Leipzig.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: black on mottled grey, with orange shield in the centre:] GUSTAV MAHLER / Hans und Grete / Für Sopran und Orchester / instrumentiert von / Robert Heger / [shield] / Partitur / B. Schott’s Soehne, Mainz

[Back wrapper: ?]

Analysis: [i]=tp; [ii]=[Orchestra list]; [1]–9=[music]; 9=[blank]; 10=[adverts]

Dimensions: 338 x 274 (p. 3: r=260)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from manuscript

Hofmeister: x.1927    Price: hire only

Edition number: none    Plate number: 31862

Copies: D-B 207469 (not examined); US-Wc M1615.M22 S2 [accession date: 27.viii.1927]

PRINTED ARRANGEMENT FOR SALON or SMALL ORCHESTRA

Vol. II, no. 2: Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald

Title Page:

Wrapper:

Analysis:

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Printing method: lithographic transfer from manuscript

Hofmeister: ii.1928    Price: M 2,50

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Copies: BL

Arranged by L. Artok after the orchestration by L. Windsperger.