PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

ACPF1pr1

FIRST EDITION, first proofs – Vienna: Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft, 1902

Title Page: none present. The title on p. 2 was printed as "Revelge.". The full stop was subsequently deleted and a question mark added in pencil in an unknown hand, and "Revelje ?" added, probably in the same hand, above the original title; this (and the pencil question mark after the printed title) was crossed through in red ink by Mahler. Below the printed title, in pencil (probably in a second hand): aus: Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Wrapper: grey card, certainly present when the score was at A-Wigmg (stamp and call number present on fwr); there are several other numbers in various hand [blue pencil:] 13, 14 [?], 15, 16; [pencil, possibly autograph:] 10; [thick blue pencil (possibly a reference number relating to the engraving and/or printing:] 56865; [pencil, at the foot of fwr:] Part 30 Pl 2–31.

Watermark: none visible

Analysis: [The folio numbering is of the composite folios (for an explanation see the notes on the printing method below.)]

1r=p. 2, 1v=p. 3 et seq. to 15v=p. 31

Dimensions: 341 x 255 (r=247½)

Printing method: each page printed directly from the engraved plate (size = c.291–5 x c.220) onto one side of a thin folio, and pairs of folios subsequently glued together to form single composite folios printed on both sides.

Provenance: Engraved by Jos. Eberle & Co/Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902; transferred to C.F. Kahnt, Leipzig by April–May 1905; transferred to A-Wigmg (as N/Wu 13h/11); on deposit at A-Wn since 2007.

Under the terms of §9 of Mahler's contract with the Erster Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft (signed on 12 August 1898) (see PBMNC) the publisher had the right of first refusal on all new works by Mahler. Although in mid-1903 this became irksome to the composer – when it threatened to prevent him negotiating the sale of the Fifth Symphony to Peters Edition, Leipzig (see FWGMV, 116ff.) – rather earlier, on 2 March 1901, he told Natalie Bauer-Lechner that he was thinking of preparing Revelge and the Fourth Symphony for publication and would hand them over to the printer (i.e. EWZG) in the Spring (NKGXIV/2, XVII).

It is not clear why it took a year or more for the song to be engraved: the proofs, date-stamped Musikaliendruckerei Jos. Eberle & Cọ / 6. Juni 1902 / 1. Wr. Zeitungsgesellschaft / VII., Seidengasse 3–9,¹ were presumably engraved from [ACF1] and were subsequently extensively revised by Mahler in red ink, red pencil, blue pencil and lead pencil. As Renate Stark-Voit, the editor of NKGXIV/2 explains, these proofs and the engraved plates prepared by EWZG were subsequently used in 1905 by Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig when preparing the first edition of the score. Most of Mahler's corrections in ACPF1pr1 were subsequently made on the plates by Brandstetter, but a member of staff (either at Kahnt or Brandstetter) proof-read the first proofs against the newly revised text, marking overlooked corrections and other technical issues onto ACPF1pr1 in blue pencil and highlighting them with pencil crosses in the margins. In addition there are various editorial annotations relating to the Kahnt publication – plate number, imprint and copyright –  and on fol. 1r. Mahler himself added the annotation, in blue pencil, original / hoch to the same leaf.

It has also been suggested (NKGXIV/2, 385) that a non-autograph pencil annotation 'Schmedes' on ACPF1pr1, fol. 1r indicates that the song was originally assigned to Erik Schmedes during the planning of the first Vienna performance, although it was eventually sung by Fritz Schrödter. This seems plausible and it might be noted that both tenors were listed in the first press announcements of the event that identify the singers (which appeared in early January 1905) so the re-assignment of the song to Schrödter (who sang nothing else in the concert) probably took place before that date.

Throughout there are two sets of editorial numbers in pencil. One, above the score, is a count of the number of bars between Mahler's autograph rehearsal numbers (added by him in blue pencil): these range from 5 to 26 bars. The second set, below the bottom stave of each system, reflects a revised casting-off – which would have increased the number of pages of printed music from 30 to 41 – presumably because a re-engraving of the score was considered (and rejected) by Kahnt in 1905.

Title Page: none present. The title on p. 2 appears as Revelge / aus: Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Wrapper: grey card, certainly present when the score was at A-Wigmg (stamp and call number present on fwr); there are three pencil annotations on fwr:
[non-autograph:] 8. Revelge [as originally planned, this would have been the number of the song in the concert conducted by Mahler on 1 June 1905: see the notes below],
[autograph:] S 8 / 2. Takte vor 5 [relates to omitted 'tr.' in the wind parts] and S. 20 / 2. Takte vor 10 [relates to faulty rhythmic notation of the string parts].
Otherwise fwv and bw are unannotated.

Analysis: 1=blank [endpaper]; 2r=blank; 2v=p. 2; 3r=p. 3; 3v=p. 4 et seq. to 17r=p. 31; 17v=blank; 18, 19=blank.

Provenance: Printed by Oscar Brandstetter in May 1905 and supplied to C.F. Kahnt, Leipzig; transferred to A-Wigmg (as N/Wu 13h/12); on deposit at A-Wn since 2007.

This set of proofs of the full score were probably prepared for Mahler to use as a conducting score at the third performance, in Graz on 1 June 1905, but it did not play a direct role in the publication process. It is date-stamped 22. Mai 1905, and has notes on the wrappers by Mahler and in an unidentified hand. The title page bears a non-autograph annotation Nr. 8: in the programme as originally envisaged, the song would have been the eighth in the group of Mahler Lieder that formed the second part (of three) of the opening concert at the Tonkunstlerfest of the Allgemeine Deustche Musikverein, but at a late stage Anton Moser decided to omit Wo die schönen Trompetten blasen, so Revelge was actually the seventh (see Martner2, p. 197).

Most of the corrections and revisions made in ACPF1pr1 are adopted in these second proofs, but not the overlooked details identified and marked up by the proof-reader of the first set (see ACPF1pr1 above). What was clearly a reference number of some sort (it appears on the first proofs as well), 56865, has been added in violet pencil on fol. 2v.

Since neither of the sets of proofs described above correspond entirely to the text of the first edition, there must have been another, currently undocumented stage in the editorial process.

Title Page: A(o)

Wrapper: fwr (black on grey-green paper)=tp A(o); fwv=blank; bwr=blank; bwv=Kahnt advert A

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–31=music; [32]=blank.

Dimensions: 334 x 267 (r=255)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4462

The lithographed title page was presumably prepared by Brandstetter, and the whole volume printed by the same firm, although the plates for the music text had been prepared by the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902 and adopt a layout quite different from that used by Brandstetter for the other scores in the series (see the entries for ACPF1pr and PF2m1 (Ex. 1a and 1b)).

Title Page: A(o) but with a paste-over (white text on dark blue paper) that covers the imprint: UNIVERSAL-EDITION / NEW YORK (cf. tp A(ou)).

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper = tp A(o), with a paste over as on the title-page

Dimensions: 329 x 255 (r=255)

Edition number: 3740  Plate number: 4462

This appears to be a copy of the first Kahnt issue that eventually found its way to the Universal-Edition's New York branch (established in 1920 (UE25, 17)). It may be the copy originally delivered to UE in 1912: if so, the commercial significance of this order remains unclear, but according to the UE Verlagsbuch a set of parts (with five additional vn 1 parts) appears to have been delivered to UE on the same date.

Title Page: Ab(o)

Wrapper: front wrapper = B(o); back wrapper = Kahnt advert Ab

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–31=music; [32]=blank.

Dimensions: 329 x 260 (r=256)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4462

An impression from the plates in their original state (though the lack of a watermark is unusual) supplied with rather later wrappers (c. 1915–16?). All the original 1905 prices on the title page have been pasted over and the original (c. 1915/16?), prices of the orchestral material on the later front wrapper over-stamped with '40' and '80', presumably at a date in the 1920s.

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, second impression, D minor – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna, New York: Universal-Edition, 1919

Title Page: A(o) but with  UNIVERSAL-EDITION / WIEN - NEW YORK rubber-stamped at foot

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper; front recto = tp K(u), with the same rubber-stamped imprint as the title-page; back wrapper verso = Kahnt advert Ab

Dimensions: 326 x 263 (r=255)

Edition number:  3740  Plate number: 4462

This may be a copy of a later, unrevised impression of the first edition (although the paper size is smaller) with wrappers dating from c. 1915–6 that was subsequently transferred to the New York branch of Universal-Edition established in 1920 (UE25, 17). The UE edition number for the high-voice score (3740) has been added in pencil on the top RH corner of the title-page.

The association of this copy with the 1919 delivery is conjectural; eight sets of parts (with additional string parts) were delivered on the same date (see the entry for PO1h1 below). Universal-Edition continued to list the score in its catalogues up to the end of the 1930s, but it received no further copies after 1919.

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – high voice

Hofmeister: vii.1905

The printer's copy for this publication was probably the manuscript set prepared for the early, pre-publication performances in 1905 ([CO1h]); the plate number of the first edition was probably 4463.

According to the UE Verlagsbuch, a total of nine sets (with additional string parts) were supplied to Universal-Edition, one set in 1912 and a further eight in 1919: the firm's catalogues continued to list the parts up to the end of the 1930s, but it received no further copies after 1919.

PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORES – high voice

Title Page: none present. The title printed on p. [3] appears as Revelge. / aus: Des Knaben Wunderhorn [Mahler, blue pencil:] original / hoch

Wrapper: grey card, certainly present when the score was at A-Wgm (stamp and call number present on fwr); there are two other numbers, [pencil:] 56864 [probably a Kahnt or Brandstetter reference number]; [pencil:] 13 Pl 3-15.

Printing method: each page printed directly from the engraved plate (size = c.275–9 x c.208–10) onto one side of a thin folio, and pairs of folios subsequently glued together to form single composite folios printed on both sides.

Provenance: Engraved by Jos. Eberle & Co/Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902; transferred to C.F. Kahnt, Leipzig in April-May 1905; transferred to A-Wigmg (as N/Wu 13h/31); on deposit at A-Wn since 2007.

The printer's copy, from which this was engraved, has not been located, but appears to have been in a more rudimentary state than was usually the case, resulting in a significant number of corrections, revisions and additions in red ink by Mahler. The proofs, date-stamped Musikaliendruckerei Jos. Eberle & Cọ / 6. Juni 1902 / 1. Wr. Zeitungsgesellschaft / VII., Seidengasse 3–9, must have been engraved and run off on or before that date. Mahler's revisions are in red ink, red pencil, blue pencil and lead pencil.  It also includes annotations in pencil by a singer – referring to breathing and pronunciation, as well as corrections – presumably made by the tenor Fritz Schrödter who gave the first three performances, conducted by Mahler, in 1905.

The first of the ossias (b. 19) was engraved (though not with a small notehead), but the second (b. 21) is an autograph addition in red ink. Almost all of Mahler's emendations were incorporated into the first edition (PV1h): the copy described was evidently sent to Kahnt as part of the publication process, and the Kahnt plate number is a pencil addition to p. [3]. However, at no point in this process was any systematic attempt made to collate these proofs with those of the full score (ACPF1pr1).

Title Page: A(k)

Wrapper: none seen

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2=blank; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 338 x 269 (r=227)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4461

The lithographed title page was presumably prepared by Brandstetter, and the whole volume printed by the same firm, although the plates for the music text had been prepared by the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902 (see also the entry for ACPF1pr). The punches used in Vienna were similar but not identical to those employed by Brandstetter, as can be seen by comparing the clefs, dynamics, trills, and naturals in Figs 1a-b below.

The publication of both the score and the parts was re-announced in March 1906:

Fig. 1: Hofmeister Monatsbericht, 1906/3 (March 1906), 148

Fig. 2a. Revelge, PV1h1a, bb. 1–3

Printed by EWZG (Vienna)

Fig. 2b. Revelge, PVm1b, bb. 1–3

Printed by Brandstetter (Leipzig)

Title Page: C(ku)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / REVELGE / aus / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / [bottom shield:] HOCH ;  fwv=blank; bwr=blank; bwv=UE advertisement C, dated X. 1910.

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=blank; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 342 x 274 (r=228)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2782   Plate number: 4461

Copies: A-Wigmg N/Wu 13h/34 (signed on title page: Erwin Ratz, 1916); D-B Km 31/2 (possible exemplar: not examined); GB-Lpc (lacks wrappers) [the dimensions - 320 x 257 (r=228) suggest this could be a different impression]

This issue, perhaps the first under license by UE, retains the plates for the music text prepared by the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902 and revised c. 1905. The entry in the UE Verlagsbuch is notable in that the order date and the date of receipt are identical: in any case the fact that the gathering is printed on Kahnt's watermarked paper suggests that the sheets were supplied from Leipzig, not printed in Vienna.

The listing of Mahler's Lieder in the advert for 'Neue Lieder und Gesänge aus dem Verlage von C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, Leipzig' on [16] corresponds in details of transpositions and price with that of the title page.

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, second impression, D minor – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1912

Title Page: Dk(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / REVELGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / [bottom shield:] HOCH / [back wrapper: UE advertisement D, dated Y I.1912]

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=Kahnt advert C; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 334 x 264 (r=228)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2782   Plate number: 4461

Title Page: D(k)

Wrapper: none seen

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=Kahnt advert C; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=228)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4461

This issue retains the plates for the music text prepared by the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902. The title page includes entries for the medium voice version of Revelge, high and medium voice versions of Liebst du um Schönheit  and Kindertotenlieder, so must originally have dated from 1907–11. The advert on [16] has not been updated (so omits references to the medium voice version of Revelge and the high and medium voice versions of Liebst du um Schönheit), but the advert on [2] includes not only those publications, but also lists the high voice version of „Ich atmet einen linden Duft‟ first issued late in 1915. The vocal line has not been revised to bring it line with that of the full score (see PV1h1d below).

Title Page: G(0)

Wrapper: none seen

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=Kahnt advert C; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=228)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4461

This issue retains the plates for the music text prepared by the Erste Wiener Zeitungsgesellschaft in 1902. The title page includes entries for the medium voice version of Revelge, high and medium voice versions of Liebst du um Schönheit  and Kindertotenlieder, so must originally have dated from 1907–11. The advert on [16] has not been updated (so omits references to the medium voice version of Revelge and the high and medium voice versions of Liebst du um Schönheit), but the advert on [2] includes not only those publications, but also lists the high voice version of „Ich atmet einen linden Duft‟ first issued late in 1915. The vocal line has not been revised to bring it line with that of the full score (see PV1h1d below).

Edition number: none   Plate number: unknown

By this date the piano-vocal scores of all the other songs in the collection had been re-engraved to accommodate English (and in some cases, French) translations, but no such copy of the high-voice version of Revelge has yet been located, and it was not announced in the Hofmeister Monatsbericht. The fact that the 1919 and 1920 UE issues of the song (see below) used the German only plates (4461) may indicate that a bilingual/trilingual second edition was either never prepared or was produced much later.

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782ª / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / REVELGE / [bottom shield:] HOCH / [back wrapper: UE advertisement type B]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert Ca; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 332 x 254 (r=229)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2782ª  Plate number: 4461

The copies described here and in the entry below are conjecturally associated with the third impression and fourth UE impressions respectively: it is possible that the associations should be reversed. The title pages and adverts are compatible with publication dates of 1919–20, but it is notable that

• the vocal part has been revised to bring it into line with that of the full score and to incorporate the ossias introduced in the medium voice version of 1906;

• at this date a German-only vocal score was being issued (but see the notes to [PV1h2]);

• the front wrapper should use the UE type A design when the slightly earlier impression of the medium-voice version (PV1m2b) uses UE type B; and

• both impressions should include a UE advertisement on the back wrapper.

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782ª / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / REVELGE / [bottom shield:] HOCH / [back wrapper: UE advertisement type B]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert Ca; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 333x 249 (r=229)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2782   Plate number: 4461

In the copy described a English translation has been roughly inserted in pencil. The paper is of a markedly lower quality than that of PV1h1d. This appears to have been the last impression delivered to UE: the Verlagsbuch also contains an order for 330 copies dated 7.v.1921, but this was deleted.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

Hofmeister: iii.1906

No copies of this score have been located, and SWXIV/2, 348 and NKGXIV/2, 385 state that Kahnt produced no medium-voice transposition of the voice and orchestra version during Mahler's lifetime. Moreover, no performance with a medium-voice (mezzo-soprano or baritone) and orchestra has been traced, and although Universal-Edition listed the availability of the medium-voice score and orchestral parts in its catalogues up to the end of the 1930s no copies of either are listed as having been received in the UE Verlagsbuch, and the edition numbers assigned to them (3742, 3743) were re-assigned to works by Eisler and Hoffler in 1931 and 1932 respectively.

Nevertheless it should be noted that the publication of the orchestral score and parts was announced in Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (along with the score and parts of the high voice version, which had been originally announced in July 1905): see Fig. 1 above. The availability and prices of the score and parts was implied (perhaps in error) on title page B(k) ([1906–07]), but is unambiguously asserted on C(k) ([1907–11]) and D(k) ([1906–15]) – both of which were in use prior to 1911 – and continued to be listed on later states of the title page, up to at least 1920.

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – medium voice

Hofmeister: iii.1906

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – medium voice

Title Page: B(k)

Wrapper: [none seen]

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=blank; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=233)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: not listed

Edition number:  ?  Plate number: 4617

Unlike the piano-vocal score of the high-voice version, this piano-vocal score was engraved by Brandstetter in Leipzig: see Fig. 1a–b above. This version for medium voice is notable because although it appeared during Mahler's lifetime, probably c. March 1906 (i.e. around the time that the score and parts were listed in Hofmeister), no manuscript sources or proofs for any of the published formats have been located and, unlike the issues relating to the preparation of alternative transpositions of „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ and Um Mitternacht, there are no known performance-related circumstances that would account for Mahler's preparation of such an alternative version of Revelge. It is also curious that there is a Hofmeister entry for the orchestral version, but not for the piano and voice version (although it was listed – in the wrong key – as having been received for review in the 18 April 1906 issue of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik).

It is striking that in the case of all the other issues of the songs published by Kahnt in 1905–06 the sources demonstrably stemmed directly from Mahler himself. That is the not the case for this transposition, although the vocal line of PV1m has ossias in bb. 87–8, 115–16 and 161–62 that do not appear in the high-voice version, which strongly suggests the composer's involvement in the preparation of the publication. If that was the case, the missing printer's copy of the piano and voice version ([CV1m]) may well have included autograph annotations. However, the vocal line in PV1m otherwise follows that of the high-voice piano-vocal score, not that of the D minor full score.

This transposition is not included in SWXIII/2b or NKGXIII/2b, although it is one of the sources on which the critically revised text of the high-voice, piano-vocal score of Revelge is based.

Title Page: B(ku)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782A / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / REVELGE / [bottom shield:] MITTEL / [back wrapper: UE advertisement, type B; date code:] X.1910

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=blank; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 342 x 273 (r=233)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: not listed

Edition number:  2782A  Plate number: 4617

The Verlagsbuch listing of the initial order is anomolous: the suffix 'a' would normally be assigned to a high voice version but nevertheless it is also included on the front wrapper of this issue. The record of the second impression of the UE issue (PV1m1c) employs the suffix 'b' that one would expect. Similarly, the original high-voice version of Der Tamboursg'sell was later issued as the medium-voice transposition.

Title Page: E

Wrapper: none present in copy described

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=Kahnt advert Aa; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 340 x 279 (r=233)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4617

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, SECOND IMPRESSION, C minor – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1913

Title Page: E(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] · UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2782^b / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / REVELGE / [bottom shield:] TIEF [sic] / [back wrapper: UE advertisement]

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=Kahnt advert Aa; 3–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 334 x 264 (r=228)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  2782b  Plate number: 4617

The erroneous specification of the vocal range on the front wrapper is curious, especially since it is correct on the title page, but the same confusion is also reflected in the UE Verlagsbuch entry. The three copies in the UE archive all share a further characteristic: the back wrapper is too narrow.

Hofmeister: not listed

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 7479

In the absence of a listing in Hofmeister, the plate number suggests publication in 1916. The song was re-engraved to incorporate the English translation and the later copies examined and described below indicate that at the same time the vocal line was revised to bring it into line with that of the full score.

Hofmeister: not listed

Edition number:  U.E. 2782b  Plate number: 7479

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION, C minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1919

Title Page: J(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green border and text on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / REVELGE / THE DEAD DRUMMER / [l.h.:] MITTEL [r.h.] MEDIUM VOICE / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2782b / [back wrapper: blank]

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 324 x 246 (r=233)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  UE 2782b  Plate number: C.F.K. 7479

The song has been re-engraved to incorporate the English translation: the casting-off is different, the tempo and other markings have been translated into Italian, and the music is enclosed within a single-line, rectangular border. The vocal line has been revised to bring it into line with that of the full score.

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, THIRD IMPRESSION, C minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1921

Title Page: J(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green rectangular border and text on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / REVELGE / THE DEAD DRUMMER / [l.h.:] MITTEL [r.h.] MEDIUM VOICE / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2782b / [back wrapper: blank]

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 320 x 248 (r=171)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number:  UE 2782b  Plate number: C.F.K. 7479

In most respects, other than the dimensions, this impression is identical to PV1m2b, and the music is enclosed within a single-line, rectangular border. However, p. 2 bears two plate numbers: 7614 (the pl. no. of the collective volume of the Sieben Lieder (medium-voice), PVcm1a,  issued in April/May 1917) and 7479.

No further orders are recorded in the UE Verlagsbuch.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – low voice

Hofmeister: no entry

The version for low voice and orchestra was arranged by Max Puttmann, c.1917–18 (i.e. after the preparation and engraving of his low-voice transposition of the voice and piano version) and his manuscript (CF1t) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located. The downward transposition necessitated a number of modifications, especially to the flute, oboe and viola parts.

From the copy of the UE issue described below it is clear that lithographic transfer from writing (autographie) was used to originate this score, although the initial clefs, key signatures, time signatures and textual matter (excluding dynamics) on p. [2] were punched/engraved:

Fig. 3. Mahler, Revelge, for low voice (PF1t1a), p. [2]

The plate number suggests that the edition was prepared in 1919, but it appears not to have been listed in Hofmeister.

Title Page: Ja(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]–35=music; [36]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 326 x 263 (r=261)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing

Edition number: [U.E.] unknown   Plate number: 8093

In the absence of any Hofmeister or other listing, the plate number suggests a publication date of early 1919. Although the title page of this score and entries in UE catalogues (e.g. the 1929 Hauptkatalog) list the availability of such an issue, no entry in the relevant Verlagsbücher has been located so far and no edition number was assigned to it. The vocal line agrees with that of the high-voice full score (PF1h).

The title page has two rubber-stamped additions:
• below the list of prices for the orchestral material: Preise ungültig / C.F. Kahnt / Leipzig
• in the bottom r.h. corner: Preis jetzt: [handwritten, blue ink:] 8.— / [stamped] C.F. Kahnt: eight marks was the raised price of the full score, introduced c. 1920.

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – low voice

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: [U.E.] unknown   Plate number: [8094]

The transposition was prepared by Max Puttmann, and one annotation on his manuscript (CF1t) indicates that the parts were to be autographirt while another provides the plate number assigned to the set: the latter suggests that the parts were first issued in 1919.  Although Universal-Edition listed the availability of the low-voice score and orchestral parts in its catalogues up to the end of the 1930s no copies of either are listed as having been received in the UE Verlagsbuch and no edition numbers assigned to them.

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – low voice

Hofmeister: i.1917

The printer's copy for this edition was CV1t; no proofs have been located, but the plate number was presumably 7632 (see next entry).

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, B minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: not present

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]–15=music; [16]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 330 x 251 (r=170)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  2782c  Plate number: 7632

The printed area is bounded by a decorative double-line. The vocal line has ossias in bb. 87–8, 115–16 and 161–62 that do not appear in the high voice version, but are provided in the medium-voice version (see PV1m1); otherwise the vocal line agrees with that of the high-voice full score (PF1h).  The tempo and other performance markings are translated into Italian (though some are omitted or editorially adjusted).

According to the UE Verlagsbuch, this was the only batch of copies ordered by UE.