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Title
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[1r: black ink, probably
Mahler, with additions in red crayon as marked in red:] Symphonie in C-moll / v.
G. Mahler
/ [pencil, not Mahler:] Clavierauszug / à 4 Handen
/ [ink, possibly Mahler:] von / Bruno Walter. |
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Date |
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Undated [?1897-?August 1898] |
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Calligraphy |
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Black and red ink, Bruno
Walter, with corrections by Mahler in black ink and pencil |
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Paper |
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14 staves, no maker's
mark, no watermark, upright format, 349 x
259 (r = 292) |
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B |
14 staves, B&H. Nr. 2c,
no watermark, upright format, 353 x
271
(r = 285)
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Fig. 1
Facsimile of the maker's mark |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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50 fol., unbound, but in board portfolio. Use the link in the left
hand menu to view details of the fascicle structure. |
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Provenance |
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Erste Wiener Zeitungs
Gesellschaft; acquired by Universal Edition in 1910; on loan to
A-Wn. |
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Facsimiles |
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None located |
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Select Bibliography |
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NKGII.2,
41, 131 (source KlA-W-Ms) |
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Notes |
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The context in which this arrangement was
prepared is unclear. No such arrangement was advertised on the
copies of the two-piano arrangement (1896) or full score of the
Symphony (1897) or of the vocal score of 'Urlicht' (also 1897)
published by Friedrich Hofmeister 'In Commission', but when
Walter visited Mahler in Vienna on 23 January 1898 it was in
part to 'collate' his piano duet arrangement (NBL2,
110), so he had probably began work on it the previous year,
drawing substantially on Behn's two-piano arrangement (PT2p41). Why did he begin this project? Mahler was certainly keen to
support his young colleague at this time, and early in 1897
offered to provide 100 marks a month towards his expenses if he
ended up having to undertake military service for a year (GMB,
224-5;
GMSL 211): it might be tempting to wonder whether the
arrangement was in some way linked to that offer, but if so
Walter, in his substantial note to the letter in
GMB
(which is
not included in
GMSL) makes no reference to it.
By early 1898 Mahler was in discussion with
the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft about a possible contract
under which the firm would acquire the publishing rights to his
first three symphonies. Henry-Louis
de La Grange reports that Walter planned to show this manuscript to
Mahler at the start of August 1898 (HLGII,
110), and his manuscript was used as the Stichvorlage for
PTp4; the
casting off has
been marked in blue crayon and pencil with corrections in red crayon
(editor) and violet ink (Walter).
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