A Cartoon of Mahler

 

 

Des Knaben Wunderhorn – 5

Das irdische Leben

Sketch – [S]

 

Not located

 

 

 

 
     
     
   

 

     
     
     
   

 

 

 

 

Title

  Not known

Date

  [May 1892–July 1893]

Calligraphy

  Ink and pencil

Paper

 

Not known, but apparently in upright format,

Manuscript structure and collation

  Not known

Provenance

 

Ex coll. Natalie Bauer-Lechner (Inv. I, III/3; Inv II, 5.). Offered for sale by Heinrich Hinterberger in Vienna: Katalog XX, Interessante Autographen aus zwei bekannten Sammlungen (1937), lot 315:

Eigenhändige musikal. Skizzen  (Bleistift und Tinte) zu dem Liede „Das irdische Leben‟. Ein Doppelblatt (= 4 Hochquartseiten). [...] Mit Klavierbegleitung.

According to the late Edward Reilly, the manuscript was subsequently owned by Dika Newlin.

Facsimiles

  None located

Select Bibliography

  SWXIII/2b, 153–56; SWXIV/2, 318–322; NKGXIII/2b, 155–58; NKGXIV/2, 357–61

Notes

 

The descriptions of this manuscript in both inventories of Natalie Bauer-Lechner's collection of Mahler autographs and the Hinterberger description suggest that it was a sketch rather than to a fair copy of the piano and voice version.

   
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