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Symphony No. 2

Sketch, fifth movement – S5.3

 

Current location unknown

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  None

Date

  Undated [April–29 June 1894]

Calligraphy

  Ink

Paper

  28 staves, Joh. Aug. Bφhme, Hamburg. No. 20, upright format, no watermark, 355 x 270 (r=279 [278 on verso])

Manuscript structure and collation

 

1 fol.:  

 

1r1–6/7–12  

17 bars (see Notes below)

1r13–17

no music:  'Retraite! Zum Apell!'

1r18–22/24–28  

19 bars ≈ bb. 448–71 (lacking the birdsong); stave 23 is blank

1v

blank but in the margin at the foot of the page an ink handwritten note in an unidentified hand (probably the owner): Eigendom van S[alomon]. Bottenheim [Mengelberg's secretary] / Geschenk van Alma Maria Mahler

Provenance

  Gift of Alma Mahler to Salomon Bottenheim; offered for sale at Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1989, lot 120; sold again at Sotheby's on 23 May 2017, lot 226.

Facsimiles

  1r is reproduced in the 1989 and 2017 Sotheby's catalogues

Select Bibliography

  Apart from the description in the sale catalogue, none located

Notes

 

For an account of the composition of the finale, see the notes to S5.1. The seventeen bars at the top of the page may represent a first attempt at the climactic passage leading up to bar 412.

   
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