Symphony No. 2 – Printed Editions

A copy of PF1 annotated on the top right of the title page: 'Schalk [18]97'. The corrections – mainly in red ink, but some in lead pencil and blue pencil – are apparently by Johann Forstik and derive from APF3 rather than APF2. However, the pencil annotations on p. 187 are probably by Mahler. It is possible, but unlikely, that at some date this score may also have been consulted in the EWZG offices.

A pencil note on the foot of p. 1 records 'Die Korrekturen sind authentisch': these are non-autograph revisions which generally approximate to those in the study score (PS1).

Shortly after the publication 'In Commission' of PF1, Mahler contacted C.F. Peters in Leipzig in the hope the firm might publish his works, including the Second Symphony, a proposal that was wholly rejected on 29 April 1897 (EKGF nos 1–2). In the autumn of that year Guido Adler initiated the discussions that did eventually lead to the commercial publication of the first three symphonies. Having been already engraved and issued, the full score of the Second was not included in the scope of the resulting subsidy provided to the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutschen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen for the publication of the symphonies. Nevertheless there must also have been early discussions about the score being included in the EWZG series, because on 13 January 1898 Mahler wrote to an unnamed recipient (probably Hermann Behn) in connection with the transfer of the plates (unpublished letter, sold at Sotheby's, in May 1989, lot 176):

The copy of the full score in the Angelina Goetz Collection provides evidence that, together with the plates, the remaining stock of unsold copies or unbound sheets of the score were transferred from Leipzig to EWZG/Weinberger in Vienna, and 'Weinberger' labels pasted over the  the publisher's imprint:

Fig. 1. GB-Lam 18878-2001 (Angelina Goetz Collection)

Title page paste-over

The date of the actual transfer of the publishing rights is not recorded, but it seems likely that it was not until after Mahler signed his publishing contract with EWZG in August 1898 and dated handbills announcing the availability of scores and other material for the first two symphonies, make it clear that by November 1898 Weinberger had taken over responsibility for the distribution of the two works.²

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft]/Josef Weinberger, [1898]

Title page: [See facsimile; brown text with brown decorative border:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur... netto / Orchester-Stimmen netto // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter netto. // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn netto / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung netto / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements / JOSEPH WEINBERGER. / WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] / [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13 / [rule] // [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann / [rule] // Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII.

Wrapper: [see facsimile: other colours were used for wrappers: dark brown on light brown/cream (A-Wigmg N/II/116, N/II/118), dark brown on grey (A-Wigmg N/II/117); back wrapper is blank in all copies seen]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters etc; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Printer: Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII. [front wrapper, title page]; Stich der Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien, VII. [pp. 2, 3]

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vi.1903    Price: Mk 45 *n.

Edition number: none    Plate number: 1

Copies: A-Wn Mus MS25-4° (Pflichtexemplar, 151/1899); A-Wigmg N/II/12 (revisions from PS1 added in blue crayon), N/II/118, N/II/119 (formerly UE hire material; revisions from PS1 added in black ink; N/II/118: cream wrappers; N/II/119: no original wrappers), N/II/116 (cream wrappers; formerly UE Hire material: the second movement has been marked up for performance with a slightly reduced instrumentation), N/II/117 (grey wrappers; formerly UE Hire material); A-Wph;  D-B Mus 1162 [not seen]; GB-Lpc 2-9200206; US-Cn VM 1001.M21s2 1897 [not seen];  US-Stu M1001 .M21 S92 1897 [not seen]

Presumably Weinberger only prepared the new impression when the existing stock was exhausted: the fact that this was within eighteen months of the firm's acquisition of that stock suggests that demand outstripped supply relatively quickly.

The second issue of the full score is basically a re-issue of the first (a Titelauflage), with only a very few, minor changes to the wrappers, title page, and  pp. 3–4, that have little or no musical significance. At what date Eberle revised the plates and Weinberger distributed the new issue is open to a little doubt. The accession date for the A-Wn copy (1899), the address given for Weinberger's Paris office on the title page and front wrapper, and the currency used for the Austrian prices (Gulden/Florins, which ceased to be legal tender in 1900) suggest an early date, but this is contradicted by the Hofmeister entry. However, it is probably significantly that the latter dates from the month of the work's high-profile performance at the Tonkünstlerfest des Allgemeinen Deutschen Musikvereins in Basel: the entry may simply be a 'launch' of the score to coincide with a highly prestigious (and, as it turned out, very successful) performance. It should also be noted that despite minimal origination costs, the new issue cost rather more (Mk 45) than the original Hofmeister edition (Mk 36).

There is no direct documentation of the size of the initial print run of PF1b, but the survival of copies with wrappers of different colour card, suggests more that more than one impresssion was issued; the UE Verlagsbuch implies that in 1910 when the remaining stock of PF2 was transferred to UE there were 153 unsold copies, suggesting an original print run of 200 copies.

A copy of PF1b, with original prices deleted and a printed  “UNIVERSAL-EDITION” sticker  in a distinctive and unusual font  over the J. Weinberger imprint on title page:

Fig. 2. GB-Lam 0090579 (Otto Klemperer Bequest)

Title page paste-over

(For another example of this paste-over, see Symphony No. 4, PF1a)

Revisions, broadly in line with PF2 have been entered very neatly – perhaps by Universal Edition – and there are also a few annotations by Otto Klemperer. This copy was presented 'To Dr. Otto Klemperer on the occasion of his 80th birthday from the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus with affection and gratitude 14 May 1965'.

The score used by Mahler for the important (and very successful) performance at Basle in 1903, and subsequently presented by the composer to Hermann Suter. It bears the inscription:

The score has annotations and corrections in red ink, pencil, red pencil, and blue crayon, probably all dating from June 1903 and earlier and correspond to the initial revision layer in APF3. Most are by Mahler and J. V. von Wöss, though a few (pencil tempo markings above the string parts from p. 49 onwards) are by Suter.

This undated copy is bound, and lacks wrappers. The emendations were made in 1903–early 1906 and so predate (and prefigure) those made in PS1. Some revisions in red ink correspond closely to the red ink corrections in APF1; otherwise the majority of the revisions are in blue crayon. APF2 contains a few revisions that are not made in APF3, but it fails to incorporate late changes made in the latter.  The score was evidently used for some collation process – presumably in the preparation of PS1 or PF3 – as there are also signed annotations in the hand of J.V.von Wöss (e.g. p. 25). See also NAMR 5 (1979), 6. 

A-Wst U.E.Deposit Mahler/G.002 –1907/1910

Autograph inscription on front wrapper: [top LH corner, red ink:] Corrigiert und / Einzig Richtig befunden / Dezember 1907. / [red crayon:] September 1910 / Mahler // [top RH corner, black ink:] Gustav Mahler.

Autograph inscription on title page: [blue crayon:] V

On the basis of writing material, this important source contains at least seven layers of revision/correction (in provisional chronological sequence): light red ink, dark red ink, orange/brown crayon, black/grey ink,  pencil, blue crayon, red crayon. It was presumably this score that UE sent to Mahler in Toblach in July 1910 for the insertion of new revisions (HLGIIIF, 748).

This is the copy text used for NKG.

With an autograph dedication to Busoni: Hernn Busoni in freundschaftlicher / Ergebenheit / Gustav Mahler.  See GMBMBS, 126–7, with illustration on 68. This gift was probably connected with the performance of the work conducted by Mahler at Liege on 22 January 1899: Busoni played the Weber Konzertstück and Liszt's Second Piano Concerto in the second half of the concert, so probably heard the Symphony. This copy was subsequently owned by the conductor Hans Rosbaud, the teacher of Hans Moldenhauer.

Select bibliography: GMWL, I.30-31 (transcription and English translations of a selection of Mengelberg's annotations)

Mengelberg's copy with annotations and timings in red, blue and brown crayon, pencil and ink.

Printer: Druckerei– und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft / vorm. / R. v. Waldheim, Josef Eberle & Co.

Printing method: Printed on a proofing press directly from the plates; single-sided sheets pasted together and tipped onto stubs for binding

This copy was presumably run off from the plates (having been revised for the publication of the study score in 1906 they represented the most up-to-date state of the score) and sent to Mahler for revision and correction. There are two date stamps present:

[1v and on the versos of the original pulls of pp. 187 and 206]: rubber stamp, violet ink: Druckerei– und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft / vorm. / R. v. Waldheim, Josef Eberle & Co. / 29. MAI 1908 / KORREKTURABZUG / Wien, VII. Seidengasse 3–9 / MUSIK-ABTEILUNG

Title page: [Black, within orange border (see facsimile):] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / [in lower shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: mauve border on green; text in black (see facsimile):] Universal-Edition: / № 2933 / GUSTAV MAHLER  / II. SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / DO MINEUR C MINOR / PARTITUR [back wrapper, black on green card: advertisement for Mahler's music available from UE, dated IX.1912]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters (no upper note, see facsimile); 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 337 x  263 (r=248)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 2933    Plate number: U.E. 2933    Advert date: ix.1912

Print ordered: 18.ix.1912    Copies received: 12.iii.1913   Print run: 40

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/14 (in a publisher's binding; no wrappers and pages slightly trimmed; paper and lithographic transfer less than ideal: possibly a copy of PF2a); A-Wigmg N/II/13 (unbound, front wrapper annotated in red crayon: 'Stichvorlage 1969'); GB-Lbl Hirsch M. 997 (bound copy, with wrappers; adverts dated IX.1912); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichtung (lacking last pages and back wrapper; possibly a copy of PF2a)

This edition was ordered on the same day as the second editions of the full scores of the First and Third Symphonies (prints runs also of forty copies). Although there seems to have been some delay in issuing this edition, it reflects the corrections made by Mahler in APFpr (which itself was based on the text of the 1906 study score). Page 3 retains the original note 'Copyright 1897 by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig'. The  A-Wigmg copy has numerous proof-reading corrections in the hand of Erwin Stein, some simply reflecting a different house style, but others revealing a keen eye for detail.

Title page: [Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / [in lower shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN-LEIPZIG

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: mauve border on off-white card; text in black:]  ·Universal-Edition· / № 2933 / GUSTAV MAHLER  / II. SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / DO MINEUR C MINOR / PARTITUR [back wrapper, black on off-white card: advertisement for Mahler's music available from UE, dated Nr. 12 x.1919]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters (lacks the upper note); 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 329 x  256 (r=248½) [bound copy, trimmed]

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

This appears to be an unaltered reprint of the first impression, retaining the Hofmeister copyright statement on p. 3. According to the UE Verlagsbuch, no further impressions of the second edition of the full score were produced.

Title page: [See facsimile, black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER. / PARTITUR. / [in lower shield] / EIGENTHUM DES VERLEGERS. / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / JOSEF WEINBERGER / ·WIEN·LEIPZIG·PARIS· / [below border, in orange:] Lith. v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien. / [black:] IN DIE „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” AUFGENOMMEN. / [left:] BUDAPEST / RÓZSAVÖLGYI ÉS TÁRSÁNÁL / [rule] / POZSONY / STAMPFEL KÁROLYNÁL // [centre:] FÜR DEUTSCHLAND BEI / FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER / LEIPZIG. // [right:] SOLE AGENTS FOR / GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES / LONDON / E. ASCHERBERG & Cọ  / 46, BERNERS STREET W.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: violet shield design on green, text in black:] [in upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [lower small shield:] № 948 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / UT MINEUR - C MOLL - C MINOR. / PARTITUR [rear wrapper = blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 230  x  167 (r = 160½)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iv.1906

Edition number: 948    Plate number: 1

Print ordered: 15.iii.1906    Copies received: 23.iv.1906   Print run: 200

Copies: A-Was SCO M17; NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting (unannotated); GB-Lbl Hirsch M. 236 (with three handbills for performances: 07.iv.1916 Mengelberg; 04.ii.1925 Scherchen; 08.i.1928 Krauss. but no wrappers); GB-Lpc 2-9200233; D-B Mus Km 54; 54/2 [not seen].

Renate Stark-Voit and Gilbert Kaplan are of the view that this new version incorporates revisions from the earlier (i.e. dating from before late 1905) layers of Mahler's annotations in APF2 and APF3, but it is possible that an undated letter from Mahler to J.V. von Wöss is also concerned with this editorial process The date (1897) of the partial translation in GMS2Fac, 93, seems implausible (Mahler began negotiations with Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft at the end of the year) and none of the corrections he mentions were incorporated in PF1b (1898), although they were effected in PS1, the music text of which represents a revised state of PF1 plates, photographically reduced. It was this text (PS1), not that of PF2 which appeared in study scores issued after 1910.

The upper note is retained on p. 2, but the programmatic headings in the fifth movement are deleted and the music text revised. The UE Verlagsbuch records two further impressions of the study score before Universal took over the rights in 1910 – March 1907³ and December 1909 (listed below). No copies of these impressions have been identified: the name and address give for the London agency on the title page may have been altered in one or both as in 1907 these changed to Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, at 16 Mortimer Street (JPVMP, 12).

Some months before they had been printed, UE had already advertised their marketing of the study scores and piano duet arrangements of the first four symphonies in the the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, on 13 December 1905. Although there is evidence that some of the early Verlagsbuch records relating to the printing of study scores may be incomplete (see the Universal Edition page for further details) that appears not to be the case for the study score of the Second Symphony.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft] / Weinberger / Universal Edition, [1907]

The name and address give for the London agency on the title page may have been altered in one or both as in 1907 these changed to Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, at 16 Mortimer Street (JPVMP, 12); the music text probably remained that of the first impression

FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft] / Weinberger / Universal Edition, [1909]

The name and address give for the London agency on the title page may have been altered in one or both as in 1907 these changed to Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, at 16 Mortimer Street (JPVMP, 12).

Title page: [See facsimile: black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER, LEIPZIG. / [below border, in orange:] Lith v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien

Wrapper: [See facsimile of the front board; rear board is blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 236 x 170 (r = 161) [bound copies]

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 948    Plate number: [pp.[2]–3; 5–20:] U.E. 948.2933, [pp. 21–209:] 1

Print ordered: 10.iii.1911    Copies received: 17.iii.1911   Print run: 100

Copies: GB-Lpc (ex coll. Alice Schwenk, Vienna); A-Wigmg N/II/19 (both copies have a publisher's binding (by Hans Scheibe, k u. k. Hofbuchbinder), so include no wrappers)

The new form of title-page reflects the transfer of this work from the Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft to Universal Edition in 1910. In this state the long-redundant upper note on p. 2 (see PF1) has been removed, and a new plate number (combining the edition number of the study score with the plate number of the second edition of the full score) added to most of the early pages. The original plate number is also visible on p. 3, but, conversely, is omitted some of the later pages from p. 21 onwards (e.g. pp. 60, 64, 73, 76, 78–9, 81, 91, 99, 119, 143, 157, 162–3, 177 and 195). All the instances of the new plate number were originated for the same model, which is clearly identifiable because of distinctive, irregular vertical alignment of the characters:

Fig. 3

Page 3 (detail), showing the original and new plate numbers

Despite the assignment of the new plate number, none of the revisions included in the second edition of the full score (PF2), except for the deletion of the p. 2 note, appear in this text. The only partial adoption of the new plate number (which may have been overprinted onto the sheets) suggests that the two copies described here are exemplars of the first impression of the second issue, and it is possible that this relatively small printing in March 1910 was of sheets to be sold in the publisher's binding (a Prachtausgabe).

The UE Verlagsbuch records nine further impressions of the study score between 1911 and 1935 (the last before the Anschluss) as listed below, a total of c.4700 copies.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION – Vienna: Universal Edition, November 1911

Title page: [black text within  decorative border on off-white:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN – LEIPZIG / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER LEIPZIG

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: violet shield design on green, text in black:] [in upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [lower small shield:] № 948 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / PARTITUR /  [rear wrapper = blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 246½ x 176 (r=162)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 948    Plate number: 1 (pp. 3, 5,7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 33, 35, 86 only)

By October 1911 Universal-Edition must have been aware that a number of orchestras were planning to perform the Symphony at memorial events for Mahler – at least thirteen in the 1911–12 concert season – and therefore anticipated heightened demand for what was clearly the most saleable published format of the work. This reprint was one of two separate batches – for the other order, see the the entry below.

The association of the copy described with this impression is conjectural and is perhaps undermined by the sporadic reversion to the original plate number, and the omission of the printer's mark on the title page. The redundant note is omitted from  p. [2], and the copy is also notable for its 'dirtiness': off-setting on facing pages, and ink smudges throughout.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, THIRD IMPRESSION – Vienna: Universal Edition, November 1911

This impression was perhaps intended to replenish stock of the Prachtausgabe.

Title page: [See facsimile: black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER, LEIPZIG. / [below border, in orange:] Lith v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien

Wrapper: [See facsimile of the front wrapper; rear wrapper is blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 245 x 172 (r = 161)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 948    Plate number: [pp.[2]–3; 5–140; 142–7; 149–204; 206–9:] U.E. 948.2933

Copies: CND-Lu Mahler-Rosé Collection S3-MD27-810 (ex coll. Alfred Rosé, lacking its back wrapper); GB-Lpc 2-9200232 (ex. coll. Fritz Skorzeny (1900–1965), signed and dated 1919)

Although it was ordered on the same day as the third impression, copies were not delivered until nearly two years later. As in the first impression, the redundant upper note is not included on p. 2 and the The old plate number '1' is still visible on pp. 3, 77, 136 and appears alone on p. 205. The typesetting of the  the new plate number is identical to that used in the first impression (PS1c; see Fig. 3).

Title page: [Black, within orange border on off-white:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN – LEIPZIG / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY UNIVERSAL-EDITION

Wrapper: none present in the copy described

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 235 x 170 (r=162) (bound copy)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  none (no wrapper present in the copy described)  

Plate number: 1 [this appears on pp. 3, 4, 7, 9–12, 14, 19, 21, (22?), 23–29, 31–33, 35–75, 77–86, 88–94, 96–99, 101–108, 110–127, 129–139, 141, 142, 144–156, 158–159, 161, 165–175, 178–193, 195–199, 202–209]

The copy described lacks wrappers, so its association with this impression is conjectural. Some features seem to point to an earlier rather an a later date, most especially the use of the original Hofmeister-assigned plate number which was largely (though not consistently) supplanted by a UE plate number in the first and fourth impressions of this issue. At present it is not obvious why the reversion to '1' is so erratic.  However, the use of the two-colour version of the original UE title page design may also be evidence for an earlier rather than a later date.

This substantial impression was presumably ordered in anticipation of increased demand in the wake of the Amsterdam Mahler Festival in May 1920.

Title page: [Gold on transparent sheets (used throughout):] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY UNIVERSAL EDITION

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V

Dimensions: various sizes; maximum ca. 560 x 747 (r = 160)

Printing method: see below

Edition number: n/a    Plate number: 1

Copies: A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 035 (D)

The date and the precise role of these unusual sheets in the production process of a later issue of the study score are  unclear.

Each of the main single-sided sheets contains 8 pages of the score arranged in the correct imposition for the printing of an eight-page gathering, and is placed back to back with its partner and folded to make up such a gathering; the 26 main sheets thus make up the 13 gatherings of the volume, with p. 209 appearing as a  separate single small sheet (2 copies).

These proofs revert to pl. no. 1 throughout, and retain Copyright 1897 by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig at the foot of p. 3. The title page uses the original UE design, but the note about performance rights is omitted from p. [2]. It is notable that the content and off-centre registration of the letterpress within the decorative border of the title page is identical to that of the copy described below in the entry for the sixth impression.

Title page: [black text within  decorative border on off-white:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (NUR FÜR DEN PRIVATGEBRAUCH) / [in lower shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN – LEIPZIG / COPYRIGHT 1897 BY UNIVERSAL-EDITION

Wrapper: [Dark green text and rectangular border on light green card:] MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / PARTITUR / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL EDITION / Nr. 948; [back wrapper missing]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank.

Dimensions: 246½ x 176 (r=162)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: n/a    Plate number: 1

In the absence of the back wrapper the association of the copy described with the sixth impression of this issue is necessarily conjectural: it might be an exemplar of fifth or seventh impressions.

The content and off-centre registration of the letterpress within the decorative border of the title page is identical to that of the proofs described above, so it is worth noting that A-Wst M-52809 lacks the bottom r.h. corner of p. 209: in PSpr this is the location of the printer's mark: 'Weag.'

This substantial print run for this impression indicates that UE believed demand for the study score was still strong.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, SEVENTH IMPRESSION – Vienna: Universal Edition, 1927

If demand was easing off, it was still healthy.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, EIGHTH IMPRESSION – Vienna: Universal Edition, 1930

Title page: [Black on white, within double rectangular border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / (Nur für den Privatgebrauch) / [in lower shield:] Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten — Droits d'exécution réservés / UNIVERSAL-EDITION A.G. / WIEN Copyright 1897 by Universal-Edition LEIPZIG / [below border:] Printed in Austria 

Wrapper: [front wrapper: light green card with text and rectangular border in dark green:] MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / PARTITUR / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 948; [back wrapper: advert Nr. 65 III. 1930.]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2=Besetzung des Orchesters; 3–56=I; 57–79=II; 80–127=III; 128–133=IV; 134–209=V; [210]=blank

Dimensions: 247 x 181 (r = 161)

Printing method: photographically reduced lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Printer: Weag [i.e. Waldheim-Eberle A.G.; bottom RH corner of p. 209 (lacking in A-Wn Mus MS67477 because of damage to the final leaf)]

Edition number: 948    Plate number: 1    Advert date: III. 1930

Copies: A-Wn Mus MS67477 (Anna Bahr-Mildenburg Bequest, 1951 with purple rubber stamps KAMMERSÄNGERIN PROFESSOR / ANNA BAHR-MILDENBURG (pp. 3 (x2), 67 and 163) and STIFTUNG (pp. 3, 67 and 163)); A-Wn MS17609-4° (Plichtexemplar: (K.)1931. Z:895/31; a bound copy, trimmed.)

This printing also reverts to an earlier state (cf. PSpr), with pl. no. '1' throughout, Copyright 1897 by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig at the foot of p. 3 and the redundant upper note on p. 2. It appears that the copyright date on the title page was misprinted as '1997', and has been corrected to '1897' in black ink on both copies described above.

Copies: US-Wc M1001.M21 no. 2.U5.

Description as for PS1j, except that the advert of the rear wrapper is numbered and dated Nr. 65 X.1935. According to the UE Verlagsbuch no more orders were placed until 1945 (for an exemplar of that post-war impression, see A-Wn MS88115-4°).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE – [Vienna: Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft/Weinberger, ?1898]

Make-up of set: 60 parts[?]: fl 1–4; ob 1–4 (3–4=ca); cl in B 1–2; cl 3 (=bcl) in B; cl in E 1–2; bsn 1–2; bsn (Contrafagott) 3–4; hn 1–6; tpt in F 1–6; trb 1–4; tuba; hp 1–2; timp 1–2; glock; tr; cym; bd; organ; vn 1; vn 2; vla; vcl; db; [Fernorchester:] Partitur; timp; bdrum; tr; tpt 5–6 (in der Ferne); hn 8–10 (in der Ferne).

Dimensions: [Vn I] 342 x 262 (r = 194)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: not listed [see PO2 below]

Edition number: [none]  Plate number: [none]

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/22–26; A-Wph III/93; A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 007(D) (fl 1 only in a set for a reduced orchestration of the second and third movements).

In the absence of the untraced (and probably lost) manuscript part set used in early performances ([CO]) a collation of a sample of variant readings in PO1, ACF1, ACF2 and PF2 suggests that [CO] rather than one of the scores was the copy text for the printed parts. Unfortunately revisions and corrections made in the working score (ACF2) were evidently not transferred to the manuscript part set, nor apparently was any systematic collation between PF2 and [POpr] undertaken (see the provisional stemma), so the first edition of the parts preserved many superseded readings – of interest to bibliographers, but calculated to annoy performers intensely.

When and by which printer this material was engraved has not yet been established. The front wrapper and the title page of the first edition of the full score (PF1, 1897) lists the full score, two-piano arrangement and the Urlicht vocal score with prices, but makes no reference to orchestral and chorus parts. However, the upper note on page 2 of that edition explains why that absence in itself cannot be taken as evidence relating to the printing history of the parts: Mahler had reserved the performance rights, and potential performers had to negotiate a fee. Presumably it was only once an agreement had been reached that Hofmeister or Mahler would make the material available on loan; what the performers might have received – manuscript or printed parts, or a mixture – is open to conjecture.  Renate Hilmar-Voit has suggested that the parts for strings, woodwind and on-stage brass were engraved in Leipzig by Röder (NKGII.2, [11], [99]): it is possible that Mengelberg was referring to this in one of the annotations in his full score of the work, where he records Mahler as having told him that Hermann Behn had paid the cost of printing parts. This is certainly possible, and would have made practical sense, especially in the case of string parts, for which multiple copies would be required (and which tend to need more frequent replacement); moreover the surviving early sets of printed parts are made up of a number of different states of the first edition (described here, and below) which would be consistent with this suggestion. However other issues and evidence may point in the opposite direction:

• The cost of engraving and printing even this incomplete orchestral material would have been considerable, at least as much as the engraving of the score: Behn and Berkhan were clearly supportive patrons, but did their generosity stretch that far?

• Mahler's comment to Mengelberg may have been a reference to the production of chorus material for the première, by lithographic transfer from writing.

• When Mahler first raised the possibility of the Symphony being taken on by Eberle & Co. in a letter dated 13 January 1898 (see the notes to PF1a), he referred only to the plates of the score; a few days later, on 21 January 1898, he again requesting that Behn arrange for the plates of the score and of the two-piano arrangement of the Symphony to be sent to Josef Eberle & Co. in Vienna, but made no reference to plates of the parts.⁴

• On 24 January Guido Adler drafted a report to the Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen in which he proposed that the Gesellschaft should subsidise the publication of the scores, parts and piano arrangements of the First and Third Symphonies, and the parts of the Second (KBM (218) and KBME (p. 216 (revised)):

Adler's statement is unambiguous, and it is difficult to imagine that he would have knowingly misled his colleagues in the Gesellschaft.

The availability of an orchestral part set for sale (at 45 Marks) was advertised in the promotional handbill dated November 1898, yet (as in the case of the first edition of the First Symphony parts presumably prepared at the same time) no publication details appear on PO1 parts (see facsimile). The status of this initial state of the Second Symphony parts, and the nature and extent of their availability remains unclear.

As no complete set of PO1 has yet been located, the make-up of the set is construed from that of the second edition, PO2. It is possible that the harp, organ, percussion and Fernorchester parts were not issued in this form, though the fact that there are more than three surviving sets make this unlikely: there would be little point in making available several partial sets.

The note about rights at the foot of p. 1 is in the form:

Droits d'éxecution, de traduction et d'execution publique réservés.

Auffürungsrecht vorbehalten.

This is omitted (presumably by an oversight) in hn 2  (A-Wph III/93).

FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE – [Vienna: Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft/Weinberger, ?1898]

Make-up of set: vn 1 only

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: not listed [see PO2 below]

Edition number: none  Plate number: none

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/25, N/II/26; A-Wph III/93 (all the vln 1 parts in the set are in this state)

Bears a typeset note at the top of the first page acknowledging the subsidy that paid for the parts' publication: Mit unterstützung der Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutschen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen. No other part or score in the standard set has been found bearing this note and the note was evidently overprinted on some copies of the vn 1 part. This suggests that the music text = PO1.

Make-up of set: 60 parts: fl 1–4; ob 1–4; cl in B 1–2; cl in E; bcl; bsn 1–4; hn 1–6; tpt 1–6; trb 1–4; tuba; hp 1–2; timp 1–2; glock, tr, cym; bdrum, Ruthe; tr, Tam-tam (hoch); tr, Tam-tam (tief); organ; vn 1; hf 1–2; vn 2; vla; vcl; db; [Fernorchester:] Partitur; timp; bdrum, cym; tr; tpt 5–6 (in der Ferne); hn 7–10 (in der Ferne).

Dimensions: [Vn I] A-Wph III/93: 310 x 237 (r = 197); A-Wigmg N/II/21: 305 x 237

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/21 (with pencil revisions reflecting changes in PS1); N/II/23–27; A-Wph III/93; A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 007(D) (partial set of wind and percussion parts only for a reduced orchestration of the second and third movements); A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 034(D) (incomplete; strings = PO3; a mixed set marked up as the Stichvorlage for the 1969 reprinting of the parts of SWIIa)

Although the orchestral parts had been advertised in November 1898, it was not until June 1903 that they were listed in Hofmeister’s Monatsbericht (at the same price of 45 Marks). Whether this tells us anything about the history of the parts’ availability is unclear.

The vn 1 parts have the typeset note as in PO1a; this is in line with Guido Adler’s original proposal that it should appear either on the cover of the orchestral parts or the violin part (KBME, 216).

The music text of all parts seems to have been revised to bring the set more in line with PF1, and the note about rights at the foot of p. 1 was also modified:

Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. 

Droits d'execution réservés.

The UE Verlagsbuch implies that the remaining unsold stock was transferred to Universal Edition on 17 November 1910, along with that of the other Mahler publications Weinberger had previously distributed on behalf of Eberle.

A mixed set including parts from PO1, PO1a and PO2. This set was Mahler's performing material at New York (1908) and Paris (1910) and some parts are signed by players:

Make-up of set: 5 parts: vn 1, vn 2; vla; vcl; db

Dimensions: [Vn I] 310 x 237 (r = 197); A-Wigmg N/II/21: 305 x 237

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/21 (vla, vcl), N/II/23; A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 007(D) (part of a set of parts for a reduced orchestration, with non-autograph annotations); A-Wst U.E. Deposit Mahler/G. 034(D) (part of a mixed set marked up as the Stichvorlage for the 1969 reprinting of the parts of SWIIa)

The UE Verlagsbuch implies that there was no systematic approach to the publication of a revised set of parts, and no printing of wind and percussion parts is recorded up to the Anschluß. Relatively large stocks of parts seem to have been handed over in 1910, and it was only in 1912 that new double bass parts were printed, followed by the other string parts in 1917.

The A-Wst and A-Wigmg N/II/21 parts contain the following note on the first page

Öffentliche Aufführung dieses Werkes ist nur gestattet, wenn der Veranstalter das Aufführungsrecht erworben und nachweilich vorher das gesamte Notenmaterial aus erster Hand bezogen hat. Das Ausliehen u. Abschreiben ist verboten.

A mixed set: strings = PO3; other parts = PO1a or PO2. Some of the revisions may be autograph.

The plates were probably prepared from the material produced for the first performance in 1895; this must have been a set of manuscript copies, apparently derived from the original copying layer in ACF2, though it is likely that duplicates would have been printed (probably using a lithographic process). It appears that no collation with PF1a was undertaken before PCh1 was printed (see the provisional stemma).

No publishing details appear anywhere on this material, and no copy of the Chor Particelle in this state has been located. The text is given in German and French (the translation probably being included because of the successful performance of the work in Liège in early 1898).

The chorus parts were listed on the promotional handbill of November 1898 as being for sale at 0.60 Mk ‘per Quartett’.

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/25, N/II/28; A-Wph III/93 (when this set was examined in the 1980s the parts were a mixture of PCh1 and PCh2, but in 2018 the parts were all photocopies of the second edition; the 6 original copies of the Chor-Particelle remain in the collection); A-Wst U.E. Deposit; A-Wn Mus MS67478-4º (2 unmarked copies of the Chor-Particelle with a copy of the piano duet arrangement of the symphony, from the estate of Anna Bahr-Mildenburg)

The music text has been revised to bring it more in line with that of PF1a. No publishing details appear anywhere on this material, but a plate number has been added. The unsold stock of parts and the chorus score was passed over to Universal Edition on 17 November 1910 (see the UE Verlagsbuch entries for the quantities involved).

1 copy of each part and the Chor-Particelle, all PCh2. Probably used for the 1910 Paris performance.

A mixed set, apparently containing material used by Mahler in New York (1908) and Paris (1910). Some of the revisions may be autograph.

This is a chorus score with virtually no cues, and no accompaniment. The tenor part is notated in the treble clef; English text only. Both copies have corrections to the text in pencil at b. 623.

There are no publication details on these scores, and their date and the circumstances of their production are unclear, though they might have been prepared for the New York première conducted by Mahler in 1908. If that supposition is correct they were probably never offered for sale, or available for hire once the third edition was available (from 1910 onwards).

The text is given in German and English in the parts and Chorparticel. Some of the set have a  Russian translation of the text written in. The only performance of the work in Russia during Mahler's lifetime was given in 1906 under Oskar Fried, four years before this edition was issued, so the translation presumably post-dates Mahler's death.

The UE Verlagsbuch entries for the work reveal that copies of the Particell  were ordered in May 1911, and soprano, alto and bass parts in the autumn of that year, but the tenor parts were not printed until autumn 1912. Further impressions followed up to 1933 (over 30,000 chorus parts in total); no further orders were placed until 1953 (parts) and 1958 (Chorparticel).

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – URLICHT

Title Page: [Black on white:] SYMPHONIE / in C-moll / Nọ 2. / von / Gustav Mahler. / [divider] / Für zwei Claviere zu vier Händen gesetzt / von Hermann Behn. / Preis M 6.–n. / Eigenthum des Componisten. [divider] Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Hieraus einzeln: Theil IV Urlicht. Für Pianoforte zu 2 Händen Preis M 1.–n. / [rule] / Commissionsverlag / von / FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER, LEIPZIG. / Copyright 1896 by Friedrich Hofmeister. / Lith.Anst.v. C.G.Röder, Leipzig.

Wrapper: front wrapper text is identical to that of the tp: black on cream paper; back wrapper: blank

CGR  4

Copies: A-Wph III/98 (see the separate note below); US-Wc M1621.M (on both the wrapper and tp of this copy the '6' in the copyright date has been deleted, and the following overprinted in violet ink: Copyright 1895 by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig; the copyright date assigned in the Library of Congress record is 26.xii.1895).

Select bibliography:  a brief description of this edition is included in NKGII.2, 39, 129 (in the description of source KlA-B-EA); see also KGXIII/2b, 157; NKGXIII/2b, 159

This printing was issued 'Im Commissionsverlag', probably subsidised by Hermann Behn, who also prepared (and certainly paid for) the arrangement of the whole work for two pianos issued at about the same time. Because no autograph of the voice and piano version of the song has come to light, this very rare edition (and the variant listed below) is of great bibliographic and musicological importance as it is the only source containing the additional text, beneath bb. 3–13 of the accompaniment, from Clemens Brentano's Gockel, Hinkel, Gackeleia (see also fig. 2 below):

Stern und Blume!

Geist und Kleid!

Lieb' und Leid!

Zeit! Ewigkeit!

Many years later Anna Mahler told Henry-Louis de La Grange that Mahler delighted in reading this story to his eldest daughter, Maria (Putzi) (HLG3, 690). However the unsung quatrain also has links with other works by Brentano, including Des Knaben Wunderhorn (click here for further details) and in these the connection with the Christian hope of resurrection is also apparent.

The (lost) autograph of the piano and voice version ([AV]) – which as Mahler stressed, was the original draft of the song, written before he knew he 'would orchestrate it and include it in the symphony' (GMUB, 24–25; GMUBE, 26) – was loaned to Herman Behn in late September/early October 1895. However, the printer's copy (CV), wholly in Behn's hand, that came to light in 2018, and offers strong evidence that he was responsible for preparing the voice and piano arrangement, and had principally drawn on the orchestral version in the Symphony as his source text. Interestingly Brentano's text does not appear in Behn's manuscript:⁶ it was presumably added by Mahler either before the document was sent to Röder for engraving, or at the proof stage.

As in PT2p4 the printed piano part contains abbreviations giving detailed indications of the scoring; the key to the abbreviations is provided at the head of p. 1.

This copy is kept with a letter from Anna von Mildenburg, presenting the score to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and recording that it had been a gift from Mahler to her. The inscription, to Anna Bahr-Mildenburg dated Hamburg 26. Mai 1896, is in the form of a poem in the top r.h. corner of the much-repaired title page:

Fig. 1

Mahler: dedicatory poem (1896)

Urlicht for voice and piano, first edition (APV1), title page (detail)

A-Wph Historisches Archiv

Fig. 2

Urlicht for voice and piano, first edition (APV1), p. 1

A-Wph Historisches Archiv

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft]/Weinberger, [1898–99]

This was a copy of PV1 with a paste-over covering the original publisher's imprint: Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements. / JOSEPH WEINBERGER. / WIEN, 1. Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] // [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13. / [rule] //  [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann. Although the vocal score of Urlicht is not listed on their promotional handbill,  Weinberger (acting as publisher under licence) presumably took over Hofmeister's remaining stock of copies, and applied the paste-overs prior to selling them.

SECOND EDITION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft]/Weinberger, [1898–99]

Title Page: [See facsimile; brown text with brown decorative border:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur... netto / Orchester-Stimmen netto // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter netto. // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn netto / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung netto / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements / JOSEPH WEINBERGER. / WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] / [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13 / [rule] // [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann / [rule] // Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII.

Wrapper: front wrapper text is identical to that of the tp: brown on yellow paper; back wrapper: blank

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–6=music; [7–8]=blank

Dimensions: 328 x 264 (r = 212)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none    Plate number: 4

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/25; A-Wph III/93 (lacks the original wrappers); F-Pgm HLG P MAHLER symph 2 (partie) en Mahler Documents, 3ème étage (not seen); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting 434 (no annotations); GB-Lpc 2-9100317 (lacks wrappers)

The currency used for the Austrian prices – Gulden/Florins – which ceased to be legal tender in 1900 provides a terminus ante quem for the printing date.

Weinberger, acting as distributer on behalf of EWZG, took over Hofmeister's plates for the song: the Brentano text was removed and the whole repaginated. Otherwise the text is identical to PV1. The U.E. Verlagsbuch indicates that 94 copies were transferred to Universal Edition on 17 November 1910, following the sale of the rights to UE. It is possible that as an interim measure some of these copies were provided with a Universal-Edition paste-over to cover the original publisher's imprint on the title page and/or wrapper, but no copies in that state have been located.

Title Page: [Green on cream paper:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur...U.E. Nr. 2933 / Orchester-Stimmen " " " 2934 / Chor-Stimmen " " " 2935  // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter U.E. Nr. 949 / Chor-Particelle " " " 2936 // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn U.E. Nr. 2937 / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung U.E. Nr. 2938 / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Aktiengesellschaft / [left:] Wien. [centre: device] [right:] Leipzig. 

Wrapper: [front wrapper: black text in violet border on blue background:] [upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL_EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2938 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / SYMPHONIE II / C MOLL / URLICHT / ALT-SOLO UND KLAVIER / [lower shield: blank]; [back wrapper = advert for Mahler's music available from UE: Y V. 1911.]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–6=music; [7–8]=blank

Dimensions: 306 x 231 (r = 215) [trimmed copy]

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 2938    Plate number: U.E. 1692.2938.    Adverts date: V. 1911.

Print ordered: 10.iii.1911    Copies received: 17.iii.1911   Print run: 100

Copies: A-Wn MS3856-4° [trimmed copy]

The title page is an adaptation of the Weinberger design. Although the original music text, as engraved by Röder, has been largely retained, much of the letterpress (such as the header and footer on p. 3) has been entirely replaced, thus removing the details of the instrumentation, and the list of abbreviations. The latter was in any case redundant, because all the indications of scoring have been removed from the piano part, which usefully decluttered the graphic image of the score. The fact that the advert on the rear wrapper post-dates the date copies were received appears to be anomolous.

Title Page: [See facsimile; green text within green decorative border:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur...U.E. Nr. 2933 / Orchester-Stimmen " " " 2934 / Chor-Stimmen " " " 2935 // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms.| arrangirt v. Bruno Walter U.E. Nr. 949 / Chor-Particelle…. " " " 2936 // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn U.E. Nr. 2937 / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung U.E. Nr. 2938 / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Aktiengesellschaft / [left:] Wien. [centre: device] [right:] Leipzig.

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: black text in violet border on blue background:] [Upper shield:] ∙UNIVERSAL-EDITION∙ / № 2938 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / SYMPHONIE II / C MOLL / URLICHT / ALT-SOLO UND KLAVIER / [back wrapper: see facsimile; dated Y. II. 1912]

Print ordered: 07.ii.1912    Copies received: 10.vi.1913   Print run: 200

Copies: GB-Lpc; GB-Lam 0117708

The title page is an adaptation of the Weinberger layout. The music text was printed from a revised state of the original plates: the heading of the song was revised, and all the abbreviated indications of instrumentation removed, as were the list of abbreviations, details of instrumentation and the footnote about use of mutes in the strings on p. 3. Rehearsal numbers and some tempo modifications have been inserted, and additional phrasing and dynamics have been added to the vocal line.

This was the last separate publication of the piano and voice version of the song as an extract from the Symphony. In 1900 the Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft/Weinberger had published the twelve Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn which included Urlicht as the final item: the original Hofmeister plates of the vocal score of the symphonic movement had been revised and used again in the single and three-volume collective editions (see Des Knaben Wunderhorn PVc1.1, PVc1.2) and it was as part of this collection of songs that Universal-Edition issued separate editions of Urlicht after 1913.

Title Page: [see facsimile; black on off-white:] SYMPHONIE / in C-moll / Nọ 2. / von / Gustav Mahler. / [divider] / Für zwei Claviere zu vier Händen gesetzt / von / HERMANN BEHN. / Preis M 6._n. / Eigenthum des Componisten. [divider] Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Hieraus einzeln: Theil IV Urlicht. Für Pianoforte zu 2 Händen Preis M 1._n. / [rule] / Commissionsverlag / von / FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER, LEIPZIG. / Copyright 1896 by Friedrich Hofmeister. / Lith.Anst.v. C.G.Röder, Leipzig.

Wrapper: front wrapper text is identical to that of the tp: black on brown card; back wrapper: blank

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Werkes; 3–38=I; 39–57=II; 58–88=III; 89–93=IV; 94–153=V; [154]=blank

Dimensions: 332½ x 265 (r = 215)

Watermark: CGR  4

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: xii.1895    Price: Mk 6 (2 copies were required for performance)

Edition number: none    Plate number: 3

Copies: A-Wigmg N/II/33; D-B Mus Km 57; D-Hs M B/13511 (dedication copy from Mahler to Hermann Behn);  F-Pgm; GB-Lbl h.3965.o (bound copy, red stamp: 30.Dec 80); GB-Lpc 2-9900022 (ex coll. Alex[ander] Rihm, Brooklyn, N.Y); US-NYp *MYD; US-Cn VM 215 .M21s2 (presentation copy from Behn to Adolf Weidig⁷)

This impressive arrangement was prepared by one of Mahler's Hamburg friends and admirers, Herman Behn. As in PV1 abbreviations are used throughout to indicate the orchestration, and a key to them (along with a short note on Behn's approach to the transcription) provided on p. [2]. This publication is historically significant as it reflects the text of the Symphony as it was in mid-1895, before the first complete performance, so transmits readings which were eventually superseded. The most striking of these is a countermelody in the second movement which Mahler removed before the publication of the full score, but which is nevertheless reproduced in at least two early commentaries on the work, presumably because the authors were using Behn's transcription (which was not revised in any of the later printings) as their source (click here for details).

According to J.B. Foerster (JBFDP, 407; for the text of the passage, see the notes on ACF1), Behn decided to prepare his two-piano transcription at the run-through of the first three movements in Hamburg in January 1895, but he seems to have done so without telling Mahler, who in September 1895 wrote to their mutual friend Arnold Berliner (GMB, 136–7; GMSL, 165–6):

It was probably in late August that Mahler was told of Behn's plan to publish the arrangement and that he and Wilhelm Berkhan were also willing to subsidise the work's first complete performance (in December 1895), and it may be these generous offers of patronage that is alluded to in an undated letter that Mahler wrote to his sister Justine c. 22/23 August (GMLJ, 503; GMLJE, 369):⁸

A manuscript of Behn's arrangement (CT2p4) survives: he must have been working from AF2 for the last two movements (and seems to have annotated the score of the finale while doing so), but for the first three movements used ACF1 and AO (which he also annotated), and in the later stages (perhaps while the arrangement was at proof stage) must also have consulted ACF2 (not least to gain access to the final version of the opening of the scherzo. How, if Mahler was kept in the dark about the preparation of the arrangement, Behn gained access to these sources remains unclear.

It is not known exactly when  engraving got underway. In a letter to Behn dated 12 September 1895 (GMUBE2, 3–4),⁹ Mahler wrote:

Mahler was conducting Siegfried that evening so either he or the transcriber made an error over the date: if the statement that it was his first night off was correct,¹⁰ then the date must have been 9 September, although Mahler was also free on the 10th and 13th of the month (see BSGMOH, 300–21). Whichever of these dates it was, it is clear that C.G. Röder had not yet sent first proofs, and indeed, in a letter to Behn, dated 'mid-October' by the editor, Friedrich C. Heller, Mahler instructs Behn to 'Have the proofs sent to me, so that I can work on them for you' (GMUB, 24–5 GMUBE, 26–7). This implies that the main proof-reading process had even then not started, so the proofs Mahler received in early September may simply have been samples to indicate how the arrangement would appear on the printed page.¹¹

The subsequent proofing and printing process is not well documented, but there is evidence to suggest that publication in December 1895 was planned: a listing was included in the December 1895 issue of the Hofmeister Monatsbericht (see above), and the handbill for the first complete performance, on 13 December 1895, advertises the availability of both this arrangement and the vocal score of Urlicht. However, the ‘6’ in the date on the title page of the two-piano arrangement has clearly been modified (perhaps on the transfer sheet or the stone, rather than on the plate), although the copyright date is given as 1895 on p. 3, which may indicate that publication was delayed briefly, until early in the new year.

The Besetzung des Orchesters that appears on p. 2 of the full score is here replaced by the Besetzung des Werkes the function of which in part is to provide the abbreviations used in the arrangement to indicate scoring. At the foot of the page Behn provides a Bemerkung für den Claviervortrag des Werkes, in which he explicitly relates his approach as arranger to that of Franz Liszt (see facsimile).

The publication played a modest role in the work's early performance history: it was presumably used for the Danish première of the first four movements in Copenhagen on 23 November 1897, the Czech première of the first two movements in Brno on 20 November 1900 and probably (HLGIV, 731) at the semi-public performance in Paris on 15 April 1910.

PRINTED ARRANGEMENT FOR TWO PIANOS WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION

Title Page: [See facsimile; brown text with brown decorative border:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur... netto / Orchester-Stimmen netto // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter netto. // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn netto / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung netto / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements / JOSEPH WEINBERGER. / WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] / [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13 / [rule] // [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann / [rule] / Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII.

Wrapper: none present in the copy described, but in the A-Wn copy of PT2p41b listed below, the front wrapper has the same text and border design as the title page, in brown on green card; the back wrapper is blank.

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Werkes; 3–38=I; 39–57=II; 58–88=III; 89–93=IV; 94–153=V; [154]=blank

Dimensions: 327 x 264 (r = 214)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Watermark: none

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none    Plate number: 3

Copies: A-Wn F21.Berg.198 Mus (bound copy, lacking wrappers; with annotations and amendments by Berg); see also PT2p41b

The currency used for the Austrian prices – Gulden/Florins – which ceased to be legal tender in 1900 provides a terminus ante quem for the publication date. This is an unaltered reissue of the first edition.

One of Berg's notes offers a reading of the work's subject matter:

Copies: A-Wn MS4168-4° (bound copy, trimmed; with wrappers); CDN-Lu Mahler-Rosé Collection S3-MD-812 (ex coll. Alfred Rosé; bound copy, with no wrappers)

This issue was made up of copies the second issue PT2p41a with UNIVERSAL-EDITION stickers pasted over the publisher's imprint:

Fig. 3

These were presumably added to the remaining stock copies of the arrangement when it was acquired by UE, along with other EWZG/Weinberger Mahler publications, in 1910. The first entry for this publication in the UE Verlagsbuch refers to the transfer of 222 copies of unsold stock of the second issue, not a printing of the fourth (i.e. PT2p41c): the entry does not include details of a print order, only copies received, and similar entries were made on the same date for all the other Mahler publications that passed from EWZG into UE ownership. This suggests the stock was the remnant of a print run of 250–300 copies.

Title Page: [See facsimile. Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / CLAVIERAUSZUG FÜR ZWEI KLAVIERE / ZU VIER HÄNDEN / VON / HERMANN BEHN / [in shield:] / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTIONS RÉSERVÉS. / “UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN-LEIPZIG.

Wrapper: [Front: see facsimile. Light green paper with lilac decorative border, text in black:] [in top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [in second shield:] № 2937 / [in main shield:] Gustav Mahler / II. Symphonie / C Moll / Do Mineur C Minor / 2 KLAVIERE ZU 4 HÄNDEN / 2 pianos à 4 ms / 2 PIANOS FOR 4 HANDS / [in bottom shield:]  H. Behn; [Rear: see facsimile]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Besetzung des Werkes; 3–38=I; 39–57=II; 58–88=III; 89–93=IV; 94–153=V; [154]=blank

Dimensions: 332½ x 265 (r = 215)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 2937    Plate number: [p. 2:] U.E. 2933, 2937 [p. 3ff.:] U.E. 2937  Advert date: III.1914

Copies: A-Wst M-32094; D-B Mus Km 57/1 (not seen); D-Budka (not seen);  F-Pgm (not seen); GB-Lpc 2-9900023

This was an unaltered re-issue of the music text of the first edition. There is strong evidence that the first entry in the UE Verlagsbuch refers to the transfer of unsold ex-Eberle/Weinberger copies of the first edition, not a printing of the second: the entry does not include details of a print order, only copies received, and similar entries were made on the same date for all the other Eberle Mahler publications that passed into UE ownership. Printed from the original plates with no revisions.

No copy of this impression has been identified; the UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders.

Title Page: [See facsimile. Brown text with brown decorative border:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur... netto / Orchester-Stimmen netto // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter netto. // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn netto / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung netto / [rule] / 2083 / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements / JOSEPH WEINBERGER. / WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] / [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13 / [rule] // [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann / [rule] // Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII.

Wrapper: [front: brown text on mottled light green paper:] SYMPHONIE / IN / C MOLL № 2 / von / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Partitur... netto / Orchester-Stimmen netto // [right:] Clavierauszug à 4 ms. / arrangirt v. Bruno Walter netto. // Clavierauszug für 2 Claviere zu 4 Händen v. Hermann Behn netto / (zur Ausführung sind 2 Exemplare erforderlich.) / Einzeln: Theil IV: Urlicht für Altsolo mit Clavierbegleitung netto / [rule] / 2083 / Mit Unterstüzung der Gesellschaft zur Föderung / deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literature / in Böhmen. / [short rule] / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. Mit Vorbehalt aller Arrangements / JOSEF WEINBERGER· / WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] / [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse Nọ 13 / [rule] // [right:] Paris / 40 Boulevard Haussmann. / [rule] // Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien VII.; [back wrapper: none located]

Analysis: [1]= tp; 2–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 325 x 255 (r = 193½)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: i.1899    Price: Mk 8 n.

Edition number: none    Plate number: 5

Copies: A-Wn Mus MS67478-4º (=Anna Bahr-Mildenburg's bound copy (no wrappers); with two copies of the Chorparticell); A-Wn F 21 Berg 198 (bound copy, lacking wrappers; bound with a copy of Symphony No. 4, PTp41) D-B Mus Km 56 (not seen); GB-Lbl h.3965.g; GB-Lpc 2-9200700 (lacks wrapper); US-CSu MLM 628 (with autograph inscription; not seen)

The manuscript for this arrangement survives – CTp4. Preliminary inspection suggests that Walter may have relied quite heavily on the Behn transcription (PT2p4) rather than PF1. The printed edition follows Walter's manuscript and seems not to have been collated with the printed full score.

PRINTED ARRANGEMENT FOR PIANO DUET WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION

The inscription on front wrapper reads Meinem lieben Freunde Arnold / Dezember 1890 [sic] / Gustav Mahler. The copy contains no annotations.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft] / Weinberger / Universal-Edition, 1906

Copies of PTp41 with a printed UNIVERSAL-EDITION label pasted over the publisher's imprint. There is evidence that the early UE Verlagsbuch records may be incomplete (see the Universal Edition page for further details), and no printing of the arrangement is listed there until November 1906.  It seems likely that these paste-overs  were added to  unsold copies of the first issue when the arrangement was 'In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen'  at the start of 1906, although other scenarios are possible. Some months before their new impressions had been printed, UE had already advertised their marketing of the piano duet arrangements of the first four symphonies in the the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, on 13 December 1905.

The sale price (in Marks) of the arrangement was 50 Pfennig less than the first issue, but the reduction is not indicated on the copies described.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft] / Weinberger / Universal-Edition, [1906]

Title Page: [See facsimile; black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER. / KLAVIERAUSZUG ZU VIER HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / BRUNO WALTER. / [in lower shield:] EIGENTHUM DES VERLEGERS. / AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / JOSEF WEINBERGER / ·WIEN·LEIPZIG·PARIS. / [below border, in orange:] Lith.v.Jos. Eberle & Cọ Wien. / [black:] IN DIE „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” AUFGENOMMEN. / [left:] BUDAPEST / RÓZSAVÖLGYI ÉS TÁRSÁNÁL // [rule] / POZSONY / STAMPFEL KÁROLYNÁL // [centre:] FÜR DEUTSCHLAND BEI / FRIEDRICH HOFMEISTER / LEIPZIG. // [right:] SOLE AGENTS FOR / GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES / LONDON / E. ASCHERBERG & Cọ / 46, BERNERS STREET W.

Wrapper:  [see facsimiles of the front and back wrappers]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 325 x 255 (r = 193½)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 949   Plate number: 5

Print ordered: 09.xi.1906    Copies received: 10.xi.1906   Print run: 155

Copies: D-B Mus Km 56/1 [not seen]; GB-Lpc 2-9600135

The dating of these copies is conjectural, and it is not impossible that the copies supplied in November 1906 were yet more copies of PTp41a (see the Universal Edition page for further details). However, these copies'  retention of the original plate number suggests an earlier, rather than a later date, as do the relatively early edition numbers in the advert on the back wrapper.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, THIRD IMPRESSION – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft] / Weinberger / Universal-Edition, [1909]

No copies of this impression have been identified: the name and address give for the London agency on the title page may have been altered as in 1907 these changed to Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, at 16 Mortimer Street (JPVMP, 12). According to the UE Verlagsbuch this was the last printing before UE took over the rights from the Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft.

Title Page: [Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / KLAVIERAUSZUG ZU VIER HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / BRUNO WALTER. / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS DÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / “UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG.

Wrappers: [Front: light green within green grey with lilac decorative border:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / № 949 / GUSTAV MAHLER / II SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / KLAVIER ZU 4 HÄNDEN / POUR PIANO à 4 M/S PIANO DUET / [In bottom shield] BRUNO WALTER [back wrapper: adverts dated Y. ix.1911]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 302½ x 227 (r = 195½)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 949   Plate number: 949    Advert date: ix. 1911

Print ordered: 21.ix.1911   Copies received: 06.x.1911   Print run: 500

Copies: US-Wc M209.M22.2

A welcome example of a copy that can be unequivocally associated with an entry in the UE Verlagsbuch, the first after 1909. This exemplar also confirms that Universal Edition advert dates are a potentially useful method of dating copies. In this issue the plate number has been changed and some revisions incorporated (e.g. descriptive titles in movement V removed) but many passages remain unaltered (e.g. movement I, bb. 384–7).

Copies: none examined; possible exemplar: CH-LAcu 991011018089702851

Title Page: [Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER. / KLAVIERAUSZUG ZU VIER HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / BRUNO WALTER. / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS DÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / “UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHFT / WIEN.-LEIPZIG.

Wrappers: [Front: light green within lilac decorative border:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / № 949 / GUSTAV / MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / KLAVIER ZU 4 HÄNDEN / POUR PIANO à 4 MS. PIANO DUET / [In bottom shield] BRUNO WALTER [back wrapper: adverts dated Nr. 12 XII. 1919]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 308 x 234 (r = 222)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 949   Plate number: U.E. 949    Advert date: XII. 1919.

Print ordered: 13.xi.1919    Copies received: 19.i.1920   Print run: 993

Copies: GB-Lpc

This impression was presumably ordered in anticipation of increased demand because of the Amsterdam Mahler Festival in May 1920.

Title Page: [Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER. / KLAVIERAUSZUG ZU VIER HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / BRUNO WALTER. / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS DÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / “UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHFT / WIEN - LEIPZIG

Wrappers: [Front: light green within lilac decorative border:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / № 949 / GUSTAV / MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / POUR PIANO à 4 MS. / [In bottom shield] BRUNO WALTER; [back wrapper: adverts dated Nr. 24 XII. 1921]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 305 x 232 (r = 223)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: 949   Plate number: U.E. 949.    Advert date: XII. 1921

Copies: A-Wn MS7136-4º (Pflichtexemplar, dated 1922; bound copy); GB-Lpc 2-20181128b (with date on tp: Wien, 14 Mai 1923; dealer's stamp: Hans Reidel / Musikalienhandlung / Berlin)

Title Page: [Old UE design but border and text in black on cream] ZWEITE SYMPHONIE / IN C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER. / KLAVIERAUSZUG ZU VIER HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / BRUNO WALTER / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS DÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHFT / WIEN - LEIPZIG

Wrappers: [Front: dark green within dark green rectangular border, on green card:] GUSTAV MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / [l.h.:] DO MINEUR [r.h.:] C MINOR / PIANO À 4 MAINS / (BRUNO WALTER) / [Lyre Logo] /  UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 949; [back wrapper: none present in the copy described]

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–27=I; 28–41=II; 42–61=III; 62–65=IV; 66–95=V; [96]=blank

Dimensions: 306 x 234 (r = 223)

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9600136

In the absence of the back wrapper in the copy examined, its association with this impression cannot be directly confirmed, but since copies of the fourth and fifth impression have been identified (see PTp42b, PTp42c) that association can be inferred with some certainty. The earlier impressions retain the original two-colour UE title-page design and decorative front cover design; this copy uses a monochrome version of the title-page design, with the later (post 1920) front wrapper design.

The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders.

Title Page: [Black, within orange border:] ZWEITE / SYMPHONIE / C MOLL / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / KLAVIERAUSZUG FÜR 2 KLAVIERE ZU 8 HÄNDEN / ARRANGIERT / VON / HEINRICH VON BOCKLET / [scroll] / [lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'ÉXÉCUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION” / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN-LEIPZIG / COPYRIGHT 1914 BY UNIVERSAL-EDITION

Wrappers: [Front; black text within standard violet border on green:] [upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [next shield:] № 3638 [vol. II: 3638a] / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / II. SYMPHONIE / DO MINEUR C MOLL C MINOR / 2 KLAVIERE ZU 8 HÄNDEN / 2 PIANOS À 8 MAINS 2 PIANOS FOR 8 HANDS / PIANO I [II] / [bottom shield:] H. VON BOCKLET

Analysis:

Vol I: [1]=tp; 2–33=I; 34–47=II; 48–71=III; 72–75=IV; 76–109=V; [110]=blank

Vol II: [1]=tp; 2–25=I; 26–37=II; 38–55=III; 56–59=IV; 60–91=V; [92]=blank

Dimensions: 305½ x 234 (r = 172 (vol. 1)/185½ (vol. 2))

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vi.1914    Price: M 12.

Edition number: 3638/3638a   Plate number: U.E. 3638/U.E. 3638a  Advert date: v.1914

Print ordered: 09.v.1914   Copies received: 07.xi.1914   Print run: 201

Copies: A-Wn MS4672-4º; F-Pgm (vol. I only, to which the front wrapper (only) for vol. II has been erroneously attached); US-Wc M216.M2B5 (copies date stamped 6.vii.1914); US-CIp M6.495 fM214sy2 v.01; M6.495 fM214sy2 v.02 [not seen]

According to Natalie Bauer-Lechner this arrangement was completed at least fifteen years before it was published, and was first played to Mahler on the morning of 12 November 1899 (NBL, 132; NBLE, 141); the brief report in the Neue frei Presse (22 December 1899, 7), names the pianists as Richard Epstein, J. Friedberger, Heinrich Schenker and Max Violin. Earlier in the year, on 29 August, it was presumably through this arrangement that Alma Schindler first heard the music of Mahler:

Bocklet taught music at the k.k. Lehrer- und Lehrerinnenbildungschule in Vienna 1878–87 and thereafter was active as a private teacher of piano ensemble playing (i.e. 8 hands at two pianos) (RM11, 191). This arrangement has never been reprinted, but the copyright was registered in the USA on 2 September 1941 by Johanna Bocklet of Vienna (see Catalogue of Copyright Entries).

PRINTED ARRANGEMENTS FOR PIANO, TWO HANDS

SECOND MOVEMENT (excerpts); FOURTH MOVEMENT, FIFTH MOVEMENT (excerpt), arr. Ernst Rudolf

PCor1

FIRST EDITION, volume I – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1926

Title Page: as for PCor1a but lacking Made in Austria below the border

Wrappers: [front:] as for PCor1a ; [rear:] advertisement as for PCor1a, but with date code I/26