It is not known under what circumstances the medium-voice
version of the piano-vocal score of Revelge was
prepared in 1905–6. Medium-voice versions of two Rückert
settings, „Ich bin
der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ and Um Mitternacht were
apparently prepared towards the end of January 1905 so
that they could be sung be a baritone in place of the tenor,
Erik Schmedes (who had withdrawn) at the planned concert of
Mahler songs on 29 January. When those songs were published
in 1905, they appeared in both high- and medium-voice
formats. The medium-voice piano-vocal score of Revelge
was published the following year, and although Mahler must
have been involved in its preparation, there is no known
performance-related reason why a transposed version of the
song was required or why no orchestral score and parts of
the transposition were published. It might be
conjectured that at some point it appeared that Fritz
Schrödter would be unavailable for one of the three
performances to be conducted by Mahler in 1905 and work on
preparing a transposition to be used by Friedrich Weidemann
or Anton Moser was begun, but that the problem over
Schrödter's availability was resolved and work on a
transposed score and part set abandoned.
