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Kindertotenlieder, 1

Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn – AV1

 

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Title

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Date
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Calligraphy

  Black ink, pencil (the treble clef added in pencil to the piano l.h. in bar 42 may not be autograph)

Paper

 

18 staves, M.B.M.8., upright format, no watermark, 320 x 255 (r=274)

Manuscript structure and collation

  1 bifolio
 
1r1–3 bb. 1–8
1r4–6 bb. 9–16
1r7–9 bb. 17–24
1r10–12 bb. 25–32
1r13–15 bb. 33–39
1r16–18 bb. 40–47
1v1–3 bb. 48–54
1v4–6 bb. 55–60
1v7–9 bb. 61–66
1v10–12 bb. 67–73
1v13–15 bb. 74–79
1v16–18 bb. 80–84
2r Blank
2v Blank

Provenance

 

Ida Conrat (1857–1938) and Hugo Conrat (1845–1906); their daughter, Ilse van Twardowski-Conrat (1880–1942, sculptor); her daughter Elisabeth Kahmann (1920–2001); by gift to an unnamed recipient; sold at Sotheby's (London) on 23 May 2017, lot 225.

Facsimiles

 

Colour facsimile of 1r reproduced twice in the catalogue listed below.

Select Bibliography

  Musical Manuscripts [catalogue for sale L17402] (London: Sotheby's, 2017), pp. 36–7.

Notes

 

This is a fair copy, lacking only some tempo and expression markings to be found in later sources, but with two interesting pitch readings: b. 61, l.h., 4th quaver has no ; b. 62, r.h., 3rd quaver is d''.

The manuscript is written on rather thick and acid paper that so far has not been identified in any other Mahler score.

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