A Cartoon of Mahler

 

 

Symphony No. 2

Sketch, movement 5 – S5.6

 

A-Wn Mus.Hs.41983

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  None

Date

  Undated [?inter 13–29 June 1894]

Calligraphy

  Ink, pencil

Paper

  28 staves, Joh. Aug. Bφhme, Hamburg. No. 20., no watermark, upright format, 354 x 259 (r = 279)

Manuscript structure and collation

  1 fol.:
  1r = draft for bb. 560–618 (c.f. S5.2)
  1v = draft for bb. 672–c.727

Provenance

  Offered for sale at Sotheby's, London, 26 May 1994, lot 293

Facsimiles

  Complete colour facsimile; fol. 1v is reproduced in the Sotheby's catalogue, p. 132

Select Bibliography

  Apart from the description in the Sotheby's catalogue, none located

Notes

 

For an account of the composition of the finale, see the notes to S5.1. The end of fol. 1r suggests that this passage was to link in with an existing draft of b. 618ff. The draft of bb. 672–725 indicates that at this stage the tonal goal of the movement was to be G major.

   
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