PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

Title Page: G

Wrapper: [black print on green:] fwr=tp G; fwv=blank; bwr=blank; bwv=Kahnt advert Ab

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–7=music, [8]=Kahnt advert Ab

Dimensions: 341 x 271 (r=237)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from writing except for some letterpress in the header and footer on p. 2

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7611

Copies: A-Wn MS93221-4°; MS18636-4° (=Pflichtexemplar);  DK-Kk Mf.A.3401 1 (bound; lacks wrapper; kept with a set of PO7h1); GB-Lpc 9200183 (lacks wrapper)

The orchestration was by Max Puttmann (1863–10.vii.1935)¹ and his manuscript (CF7h) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located. In the absence of a Hofmeister entry, the plate number indicates a publication date in mid-1917. The duplication of adverts is unusual.

The orchestral score was assigned the edition number U.E. 3928a; although the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders for the song in this format, its availability was advertised in UE catalogues until at least 1937.

The DK-Kk copy is signed on the title page Rita Weise, probably the soprano Rita Meinl-Weise (1898–1987), and has been heavily annotated (in blue and red pencil) by an unidentified conductor responsible for similar annotations in a copy of the high-voice score of Um Mitternacht in the same collection (PF6h1a) that was probably also once owned by Meinl-Weise.

Title Page: none; heading on vn 1, p.1: Liebst du um Schönheit / (Fr. Rückert) / [r.h.:] Gustav Mahler.

Make-up of set: 17 parts: ob 1–2, ca, cl 1–2 in B, bsn 1–2,  hn 1–4 in F, hf, vn 1, vn 2, vla, vcl, db

Dimensions: 338 x 269 (r=226 (vn 1)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from letterpress and writing

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7612

Print run: [300, i.e. c. 10–15 sets]

Copies: A-Wigmg N/Rü 2h/21 (incomplete); DK-Kk Mf.A. 3401 1) (kept with a copy of PFh1)

The parts were of Max Puttmann's arrangement were printed with typeset header and footer, and autographiert music text; no proofs have been located. In the absence of a Hofmeister entry, the plate number indicates  a publication date in mid-1917. The estimate of the print run for the part sets is based on the comparable figures for songs 3–6 in the collection provided by Reinhold Kubik (RKGMK, 172 summarized on the Sieben Lieder homepage).

The orchestral parts were assigned the edition number U.E. 3929a: although the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders for the song in this format its availability was advertised in UE catalogues until at least 1937.

The DK-Kk parts are all signed in pencil Rita Weise, probably the soprano Rita Meinl-Weise (1898–1987) and have been annotated in pencil by the conductor responsible for the markings in PF7h1.

PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORES – high voice

Title Page: [Rubber stamped, top. l.h. corner:] KAMMERSÄNGERIN PROFESSOR / ANNA BAHR-MILDENBURG / [rubber stamp:] Stiftung / [black ink, unidentified hand, centred:] Gustav Mahler: / „Liebst du um Schönheit...‟ / hoch / [publisher's stamp:]

Fig.1

Wrapper: none

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=blank but rubber stamped: Legat / A.Bahr Mildenburg 1951

Dimensions: 336 x 268 (r=217)

Printing method: printed directly from engraved plates (size 276 x 193)

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4824

This copy is not a true set of proofs: it is printed on high-quality paper bearing the publisher's watermark, and probably functioned more as an advance copy although the circumstances of its production are unknown.

Title Page: C(k)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=advertisement

Dimensions: 339 x 270 (r=218)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iii.1907

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4824

Neither the printer's copy, nor proofs for this edition have been located. This edition was advertised in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 38/4 (24 January 1907), 106, and  38/10 (7 March 1907), 262.

Title Page: Supp7

Wrapper: none

Analysis: [1]=title page, [2–3]=music, [4]=advertisement

Dimensions: not recorded

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4824

This issue appeared as the music supplement to Musikalisches Wochenblatt  38 / Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 74, No. 18 (2 May 1907). The two periodicals had merged in 1906 but at the beginning of 1908 the cumbersome double title was dropped in favour of Musikalisches Wochenblatt. From 1911 until 1919 it reverted to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.

„Liebst du um Schönheit“ was  apparently printed from the first edition plates.

PV7h2l

SECOND EDITION, COMPILATION ALBUMS: Mein Lied, E major, large format – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1907

Hofmeister: iv.1907

Edition number: none  Plate number: unknown

This edition of the song formed part of a collective volume, as listed in Hofmeister:

Fig. 2

In addition to the Hofmeister listing the volume was also advertised in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 38/11 (14 March 1907), 286: this indicates that there were two formats available, a Grosse and a Kleine Ausgabe. The songs may have been re-engraved for one or both of these formats. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

SECOND EDITION, COMPILATION ALBUMS: Mein Lied, E major, small format – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1907

Hofmeister: iv.1907

Edition number: none  Plate number: unknown

THIRD EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME: Meister des Liedes, E major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1910]

Title Page: [see facsimile]  Meister des Liedes / [decorative rule] / Masters of Song · Les Maîtres du Lied / 20 / Ausgewählte Lieder / SELECTED SONGS  MÉLODIES CHOISIES....]

Wrapper: [fwr, black text on pink; in cartouche: ] EDITION KAHNT / Nọ  5954 / MEISTER [stylised flower design] / DES LIEDES / · MASTERS OF SONGS · / [segment of musical stave] / [segment of musical stave] ·  Les Maîtres du Lied / [double rule] / Für hohe Stimme.; [fwv, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert C; [bwr, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert F; [bwv, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert D

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–80=music

Fig. 3

Contents list from the title page

Dimensions: 273 x 190 (r=179, p. 54; r=181, p. 58)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: xi.1910

Edition number: 5954  Plate number: 5687

This collection of songs, which was available in high- and medium-voice versions, was advertised on Kahnt adverts D and G–Gb; „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ appears as no. 14 (pp. 54–7, pl. no. 5689) in the the collection, and „Liebst du um Schönheit‟ as no. 15 (pp. 58–59, pl. no. 5687). The new trilingual versions of the two songs were probably engraved at about the same time and it is notable that all of the other plate numbers in the volume are in the range 5641–5944, suggesting that the new plates needed for the collection were all prepared in the period from late 1909 to mid-1910.

With the exception of songs by Brahms and Richard Strauss, the copyrights were owned by Kahnt. It is not known whether there were later impressions of this collection. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

Title Page: Ck(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 297 x 227 (r=219) [cropped copy]

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: [2781a]  Plate number: 4824

This ostensibly unprepossessing exemplar is notable for a number of reasons. The title page indicates that it was a UE issue, and that it probably dates from early in the Kahnt-UE licensing arrangement; the fact that Kindertotenlieder is not included in the list suggests a date before 1911 (see the notes to title page D). According to the UE Verlagsbuch the only relevant order would be the first for the song, placed on 8 October 1910, but unusually, the receipt date is the same (perhaps just a book-keeping error). On the other hand it seems curious that the first UE issue of the song would be bilingual. The French translation is that prepared for the Meister des Liedes compilation volume, also issued in 1910, and a French equivalent of the opening tempo marking is provided, although the other German performance directions are not also given in French; it is notable that the song's original plate number has been been retained. It is possible that the  French text was simply added to the original plates, which would account for the retention of the original plate number.

Fig. 4

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, (PV7h, Leipzig/Vienna, 1910), p. 2

Hofmeister: iii. 1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: [5687]

Separate copies of the third edition of the high-voice version of the song may have been printed between 1910 and 1916, though if so it remains unclear why the Hofmeister listing of this tri-lingual edition was delayed. In the absence of a located copy of this edition the bilingual state of the plates (see PV7h3b) is notable for revealing that the casting-off of the song had been radically revised.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 2781a  Plate number: [4824 or 5687]

This was the second order for the song listed in the UE Verlagsbuch: the sheets dispatched to Vienna in fulfilment could have been of the first edition, third edition (sent a couple of months before its publication was announced in Hofmeister) or the fourth (printed from the re-engraved plates prepared in 1910).

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: front wrapper=U.E. type B, dark green on light green: UNIVERSAL-EDITION / GUSTAV MAHLER / LIEBST DU UM SCHÖNHEIT / LOV'ST THOU BUT BEAUTY / [l.h.:] HOCH [r.h.:] HIGH / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / 2781a; back wrapper=blank

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 325 x 245 (r=189)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 2781a  Plate number: 5687

See the UE Verlagsbuch for notes on the revisions and corrections to the record of the order for this printing. A comparison with the comparable bilingual impression of the medium-voice version (PVm3b) suggests that this bilingual variant was created in the same way: by simply masking out the French translation during the transfer process:

Fig. 5

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, (PV7h, Leipzig/Vienna, 1920), p. 2

All the performance instructions in German have been translated into Italian and the printed area is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border.

There is apparently no evidence to unequivocally associate the copy described specifically with the 1920 or 1921 UE impression.

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: front wrapper=U.E. type B, dark green on light green: UNIVERSAL-EDITION / GUSTAV MAHLER / LIEBST DU UM SCHÖNHEIT / LOV'ST THOU BUT BEAUTY / [l.h.:] HOCH [r.h.:] HIGH / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / 2781a; fwv=blank; bwr, bwv=blank

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 319 x 246 (r=189)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 2781a  Plate number: 5687

There is apparently no evidence to unequivocally associate the copy described with either the 1920 or 1921 UE impression. The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders for the song in this format.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

Title Page: G

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper = tp G; back wrapper not present

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–7 music; [8]=Kahnt advert Ab

Dimensions: 328 x 252 (r=236)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing, with letterpress as header and footer on p. 2.

Hofmeister: iv/v.1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K. 7471

This was the first of the three transpositions of the orchestration by Max Puttmann to be published: his manuscript (CF7m) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located.

The orchestral score was assigned the edition number U.E. 3928b: although the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders for the song in this format its availability was advertised in UE catalogues until at least 1937. The copy described is a Kahnt issue, but the UE edition number has been added in pencil next to the song title in the listing on the front wrapper.

Hofmeister: iv/v.1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: unknown

The orchestral parts were assigned the edition number U.E. 3929b; although the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders for the song in this format its availability was advertised UE catalogues until at least 1937.

Title Page: C(k)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=advertisement

Dimensions: 339 x 270 (r=218)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iii.1907

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4823

Copies: US-Wc M1614.M214 (copyright date 9.iv.1907); D-B Km 26/1 (possible exemplar: not examined); GB-Su MS22, xx M 302.M2 (ex coll. Anna Mahler; Rubber-stamped 'Autors-Exemplar', not yet examined);

Neither the printer's copy, nor proofs for this edition have been located. The first (semi-public) performance of the song was apparently given on 8 February 1907: it is possible that one or two manuscript copies of the song (medium voice) were prepared for the baritone, Anton Moser and his [unidentified] accompanist, but it is more likely that they were using early page proofs.

This edition was advertised in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 38/10 (7 March 1907), 262.

SECOND EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME, Mein Lied, C major, large format – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1907

Hofmeister: iv.1907

Edition number: none  Plate number: [5034?]

SECOND EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME, Mein Lied, C major, small format – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1907

Title Page: [see facsimile:] Mein Lied / Eine Sammlung / von / Liedern und Gesängen / für eine Singstimme mit Klavier / Band ... II [kleine Ausgabe]

Wrapper: [see facsimile]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]= blank; [3]= Inhaltsverzeichnis; 14–15= Nº· 24. / „Liebst du um Schönheit‟; [58]= advert

Dimensions: 170 x 130 (r=125)

Printing method: transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iv.1907    Price: Mk. 0.50

Edition number: none  Plate number: 5034

Copies: A-Wn MS 93159-8°/2 [bound copy]

Each volume of this collection of modern songs published by Kahnt was issued in two transpositions (high- or medium-voice) and two sizes (grosse Ausgabe or kleine Ausgabe). In addition to the Hofmeister listing the volume was advertised in the Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 38/11 (14 March 1907), 286. The repertoire of this series was clearly aimed at a less high-brow constituency than Meister des Liedes. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

The plate number assigned to volume two of the small-format, medium-voice version appears rather anomolous (see the Working Paper on Kahnt Plate Numbers for the wider context).

THIRD EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME: Meister des Liedes, C major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1910]

Title Page: [Meister des Liedes: 20 Ausgewählte Lieder]

Hofmeister: xi.1910

Text: German, English and French

Edition number: none  Plate number: [5688]

This collection of songs, which was available in high- and medium-voice versions, was advertised on Kahnt adverts D and G–Gb; „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ appears as no. 14 (pp. 54–7) in the the collection, and „Liebst du um Schönheit‟ as no. 15 (pp. 58–59).

The new trilingual versions of the two songs were probably engraved at about the same time and it is notable that all of the other plate numbers in the volume are in the range 5641–5944, suggesting that the new plates needed for the collection were all prepared in the period from late 1909 to mid-1910.

With the exception of songs by Brahms and Richard Strauss, the copyrights were owned by Kahnt. It is not known whether there were later impressions of this collection. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 2781b  Plate number: unknown

At present the sole source of evidence for this UE issue is the entry in the UE Verlagsbuch.

UNIDENTIFIED EDITION, U.E. ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION, C major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1911

Edition number: 2781b  Plate number: unknown

At present the sole source of evidence for this UE issue is the entry in the UE Verlagsbuch.

UNIDENTIFIED EDITION, U.E. issue, third impression, C major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1913

Edition number: 2781b  Plate number: unknown

At present the sole source of evidence for this UE issue is the entry in the UE Verlagsbuch.

FOURTH EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME: Sang und Klang [vol. IX], C major, German – Berlin-Basel: Musikverlag „Sang und Klang“, [1914]

Title Page: :SANG UND KLANG / IM XIX·| XX· JAHRHUNDERT: / ERNSTERES UND HEITERES AUS / DEM REICHE DER TÖNE / [harp logo] / MIT EINER ANZAHL BIOGRAPHIEN UND PORTRAITS / MUSIKVERLAG „SANG UND KLANG“, BERLIN-BASEL: / [abstract logo]

Wrapper: [front board: see facsimile; back board: plain]]

Analysis: [I]=tp; [II]= [details of the printer, binder and copyright];

[III] = Vorwort;

IV–VI = Inhaltsverzeichnis;

VII-XIV = Einleitung [with b&w photographs of the composers];

[XV-XVI] = Inhaltsangabe [list of contents of vols V–VIII];

[1] = [section title:] Klassische und Salon Musik; [2] = blank; 3–108 = [24 items];

[109] = [section title:] Die Oper; [110] = blank; 111–208 = [20 items laid out for piano with under-laid text];

[209] = [section title:] Operette und Tanz; [210] = blank; 211–290 = [16 items; some for piano and voice; others piano with under-laid text];

[291] = [section title:] Das Lied; [292] = blank; 293–372 = [25 items for voice and piano]

Dimensions: 325 x c.245 (r=225 [p. 318])

Printing method: transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Text: German only

Edition number: none  Plate number: 9

See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines, where it is suggested that Sang und Klang may have been the model for Universal-Edition's Excelsior Albums (1911, 1913, 1915). One important feature the latter did not adopt from their predecessor was the Einleitung, with its biographies and photographs.

Hofmeister: iii. 1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: [5688]

Other impressions of the second edition of the medium-voice version of the song may have been printed for Kahnt between 1910 and 1916, though if so, it is unclear why the Hofmeister listing of the separate tri-lingual edition of the songs was delayed.

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=U.E. type B, dark green on light green:] UNIVERSAL-EDITION / GUSTAV MAHLER / LIEBST DU UM SCHÖNHEIT / LOV'ST THOU BUT BEAUTY / [l.h.:] MITTEL [r.h.:] MEDIUM VOICE / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / 2781b; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 325 x 246 (r=185)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: not listed

Edition number: none  Plate number: 5688

The title page does not reflect the second round of price increases introduced c. 1920/21 suggesting that this bi-lingual copy could be an exemplar of the 1920 impression. A comparison with the trilingual impression described and illustrated below (Fig. 8) suggests that this bi-lingual variant was created by simply masking out the French translation during the transfer process. The printed area is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border.

Fig. 7.

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, (PV7m, Leipzig/Vienna, 1920), p. 2

THIRD EDITION, FIRST STATE, U.E. ISSUE, THIRD IMPRESSION, C major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1921

Title Page: K(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=U.E. type B, dark green on light green:] UNIVERSAL-EDITION / GUSTAV MAHLER / LIEBST DU UM SCHÖNHEIT / LOV'ST THOU BUT BEAUTY / M'AIMES-TU BELLE? / MITTEL – MEDIUM VOICE – VOIX MOYENNE / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / 2781b; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–3 music; [4]=Kahnt advert Bb

Dimensions: 324 x 248 (r=236)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme Camille Chevillard)

Edition number: U.E. 2781b  Plate number: 5688

Copies: D-B 245386 (not seen); DK-Kk U204, mu 6807.0810;  GB-Lpc 2-9200181 (ex coll. Ritschy Wolf), and a second copy, signed in pencil [?] R van Driel, Augustus 1941 (possibly the contralto Jacoba Repelaer van Driel, 1889–1967)

In this trilingual state the printed area is surrounded by a two-line decorative border. The association of the copy described with the 1921 UE issue is conjectural: the title page, which reflects the second round of price increases, and the advertisement on p. 4 suggest that the copy described could be an exemplar of one of the UE impressions from 1921–25. Whether this apparent return to the trilingual format was intentional, or the result of an inadvertent use of the earlier form of the plates, is not clear.

The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders for the song in this format.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – low voice

Title Page: G

Wrapper: front wrapper: black on grey-green paper=tp G; back wrapper: not recorded

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–7 music; [8]=advertisement

Dimensions: 339 x 263 (r=269)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7708

This transposition of his own orchestration was prepared by Max Puttmann; neither the printer's copy nor the proofs have been located. In the absence of a Hofmeister entry, the plate number suggests a publication date in mid-1917.

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper=tp H(u); back wrapper: no photo

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–7 music; [8]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 326 x 261 (r=238½)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7708

Copies: A-Wn MS18936-4° (Pflichtexemplar 895/31; bound copy; copy described); DK-Kk Mf.A. 3401 2 (bound copy, lacking wrappers; kept with a set of PO7t1)

The date of this issue is uncertain. Although the standard title page includes 'In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen' and the score's availability was advertised in UE catalogues until at least 1937, the UE Verlagsbuch records no UE edition number or orders.

Make-up of set: 15 parts: ob 1–2, ca, cl 1–2, bsn 1–2, hn 1–4, harp, vn 1, vn 2, vla, vcl, db

Dimensions: c.332 x 267 (r = 202 [vn 1])

Printing method: Lithographic transfer writing

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none   Plate number: 7709

The orchestral parts were assigned the edition number U.E. 3929c by Universal-Edition; although the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders for the song in this format, its availability was advertised in UE catalogues until at least 1937.

Hofmeister: i.1917

Edition number: none  Plate number: [7634]

Neither the printer's copy nor the proofs for this edition have been located.

Edition number: [U.E. 2781c]  Plate number: [7634]

FIRST EDITION, U.E. issue, second impression, B major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920

Title Page: K(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–7 music; [8]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 330 x 250 (r=178)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2781c  Plate number: 7634

The association of the incomplete copy described (which must date from after 1919) with this impression, is conjectural. [Check the languages used]

Edition number: U.E. 2781c  Plate number: unknown

The UE Verlagsbuch records no further large orders for the song in this format, but does list a series of four small orders (for between 7 and 20 copies) between 1931 and 1935.