30 fol.: fol. 1–5,¹ 11–15² = type A; fol. 21–30 = type B.

1v=tp; 1v–9r=first movement; 9v–12r=second movement; 12v–18r=third movement; 18v–19r=fourth movement; 20v–30r=fifth movement

Alma Mahler (by inheritance); Wolfgang Rosé (by gift from Alma Mahler); Hans Moldenhauer (purchase?)

This manuscript has not been examined: the entry here is based on the detailed description in GMBMBS.

There is no evidence about the identity of either the author of the arrangement or the copyist (if they were different people) on the manuscript. Significantly the arrangement was in Mahler's own collection, and in a letter to Alma Mahler dated 22 May 1908 he reported that he had met 'Klemperer; der den prachtvollen Clavierauszug zu 2 Händen von der 2. gemacht hat' (GMBaA, 357–8; GMBaAE, 302). Klemperer had conducted the Fernorchester at Oskar Fried's performance of the Symphony in 1906 and responding to the latter's advice made an arrangement od the Second Symphony for solo piano as a means of establishing contact with Mahler. During a meeting (presumably in Vienna) in 1907  he had shown the arrangement to the composer, and played the scherzo (OKME, 5–6, 8–9). The arrangement was reportedly lost later during Klemperer's years in America, (PHOK1,  26 and fn.) and, on the basis of a comparison with the autograph of  Klemperer's setting of Hebbel's Wenn die Rosen ewig blüthen (dated November 1908), Renate Stark-Voit and Hartmut Schaefer concluded that this manuscript arrangement of Mahler's Symphony is not in his hand, although it could be a professional copy prepared from the (lost) autograph arrangement for presentation to Mahler (GMBMBS, 125).