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Symphony No. 2

Sketch, movement 5 – S5.5

 

US-NYpm M214.S986 (Robert Owen Lehman Deposit)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  None

Date

  Undated [13–29 June 1894]

Calligraphy

  Black ink, brown ink (4973–502), with pencil annotations

Paper

  24 staves, no maker's mark, upright format, 349 x 270 (r = 305˝)

Manuscript structure and collation

  1 fol.:
  1r = draft for bb. 472–502
  1v = draft of bb. 505–511; 512–40

Provenance

  Ex coll. Alma Mahler?

Facsimiles

  fol. 1r–v: GKMRC, pp. 31, 33 (colour, with transcriptions by Stephen Hefling)

Select Bibliography

  ERDS, 270–1 (a brief reference); HLG1F, 1016; GKMRC, 20–24

Notes

 

For an account of the composition of the finale, see the notes to S5.1. The musical text is close to that of AF2 except in rhythmic/metrical organisation.

   
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