Symphony No. 2

Sketch, movement 5 – S5.2

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1

Stave 29 is hand-drawn.

Title

Neu!

Date

Undated [March–June 1894]

Calligraphy

Ink, pencil

Paper

28 staves, no maker's mark, watermark not recorded, upright format, 350 x 270 (r = 280)

Manuscript structure and collation

1 fol.

1r1

blank

1r2–4, 5–7

nine bars (an variant version of bb. 492ff.)

1r5–7

2 bars ≈ bb. 505–6 + 5 unused bars [pencil]

1r8–9

blank

1r10–13

10 bars ≈ bb. 497ff.

1r14–17, 18–11, 23.1

approx. 17 bars (c.f. S5.6), a setting of:

O glaube, O Herz:

Es geht dir nicht verloren!

Dein ist, ja dein, was du ersehnt, erstritten!

1r22–21, 22–24

11 bars ≈ bb. 601–611, a setting of:

O glaube: du warst nicht um sonst geboren!

Hast nicht um sonst gelebt, gestritten!

1r25–27	5 bars ≈ bb. 612–15 + 1 bar/bb. 351–353; 5 bars ≈ bb. 354–358/bb. 342–46
1r28–29ą	bars 1–2 ≈ bb. 347–48/bb. 359–60; bars 3–8 ≈ bb. 372–377; bars 9–11 ≈ bb. 617–19

1v	bb. 189ff; 380ff.

Provenance

Ex coll. Alma Mahler; Margarete Hammerschlag/Margarete Unger (gift from Alma Mahler, on her wedding); sold at Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1997, lot 114; now in a private collection in London

Facsimiles

1r is reproduced in the 1997 Sotheby's catalogue; GKMRC, p. 29 (colour, with transcription by Stephen Hefling)

Select Bibliography

HLG1F, 1016; GKMRC, 13–23; Sotheby's catalogue, London, 5 December 1997, lot 114

Notes

Examined briefly before the 1997 sale: contents of 1v from HLG1F (where it is described as 'deux feuilles'). Although the sketches on fol. 1r contains brief allusions to material that first appears relatively early in the completed movement, they were probably first adumbrated here as Mahler attempted to clarify the initial entry of the chorus singing his version of Klopstock's text, and were only later employed incorporated into the opening section of the movement.