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  Sieben Lieder, 2

Der Tamboursg'sell – ACF2m

 

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Title

 

1r: [heading, non-autograph, ink:] „Der Tamboursg'sell.” / Ballade aus „des Knaben Wunderhorn. / Gustav Mahler / [Mahler, pencil:] mittel / original / d moll

Date

 

[Autumn 1904]

Calligraphy

 

[Unidentified copyist:] black ink, with annotations by Mahler and staff at [Waldheim-Eberle?]/C.F. Kahnt/Oscar Brandstetter

 

Colour photograph of the upper protion of fol. 1r of SL2ACF

Fig. 1

ACF2, page 1 (detail)

Paper

 

18 staves, J.E. & C  /  N  5 / 18 linig., upright format, no watermark, 345 x 265 (r=272)

Manuscript structure and collation

 

8 fol.

 
 

Folio 

Bars

Commentary

— 

1r

1–12

 

1v

13–23

 

— 

2r

24–33

 

2v

34–44

 

— 

3r

45–54

 

3v

55–64

 

Graphic square bracket indicating the presence of a bifolio in the manuscript structure

4r

65–74

 

4v

75–84

 

5r

85–95

 

5v

96–106

 

— 

6r

107–117

 

6v

118–128

 

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7r

129–139

 

7v

140–150

 

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8r

151–161

 

8v

  162–171  

Mahler annotated the penultimate bar, dividing it into two.

Provenance

 

Supplied to C.F. Kahnt by Mahler; transferred from Kahnt to A-Wigmg (N/Wu 14m/11); on loan at A-Wn since 2007

Facsimiles

 

None located

Select Bibliography

 

SWXIV/2, StV, 356; NKGXIV/2, Stv, 392; RKGMK, 159; Online catalogue record

Notes

 

This manuscript was presumably copied from the autograph full score of the revised version (AF22m) in the autumn of 1904. Mahler's annotations, and in particular, his addition of rehearsal numbers in blue crayon, suggests that he used this copy for the performances in Vienna on 29 January and 3 February 1905 and (less certain) in Graz on 1 June 1905. The manuscript subsequently functioned as the printer's copy for the first edition (PF2m1), the plate number of which, 4465, has been added on fol. 1r in red pencil; in the bottom l.h. corner in pencil the annotations Verlag / z. Stich. have also been added. For the annotations in the top r.h. corner, see the facsimile above (Fig. 1).

There is a pencil bar number above the first bar of each page. Before Mahler divided the penultimate bar into two someone also counted and noted in pencil the number of bars before, after and between the eleven rehearsal numbers:

  1   2   3   4   5   6   *   7   8   9   10   11  
14   14   12   14   11   11   14   20   16   8   11   11   14

Table 1

*'14' is noted (correctly) at the double bar at b. 90/91

 

Mahler's placing of rehearsal numbers generally may well merit a special study, not least for the insights it might offer on the evolution of his rehearsal practices, but they have been omitted from SWXIV/2 and NKGXIV/2.

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