A Cartoon of Mahler

 

  Sieben Lieder, No. 3

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟ – SS3m

 

A-Wn Mus.Hs.4365

 

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During the 1901 vacation they had briefly resumed their physical relationship (GKIB, 22).

 

 

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Annotation on the original library catalogue card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  None
Date
  [Black ink, 1v:] 14 Juni 1901

Calligraphy

  Mahler: black ink, pencil

Paper

  18 staves, J.E. & C / N 18 / 18 linig, oblong format, watermark: J. E. & C  [runs horizontally at the foot of both folios], 263 x 341 (r=223) 

Manuscript structure and collation

 

1 bifolio (folio 2 has been torn and about a quarter of the fore edge side of the sheet is missing.

 

1r

bb. 2–48

1v

bb. 48a–66

2r

Blank

2v

Blank

Provenance

 

This sketch was presumably one of those mentioned by Bauer-Lechner (NBL2, 195):

Als Zeichen unseren besten Übereinstimmung in dieser Ferien schenkte er mir die Skizzen aller seiner heurigem Lieder.

As a token of our best rapport during this holiday he gave me the sketches of all his recent songs.¹

It was listed in both inventories of her collection of Mahler manuscripts prepared after her death in 1921 (Inv. I, III/6; Inv. II, 7); purchased from V.A. Heck in May 1929.²

Facsimiles

  Complete online colour facsimile; complete b&w facsimile: RSGMWI, 44–45

Select Bibliography

  SWXIII/3, Sk, p. vi; SWXIV/3, Sk, p. vi; HDGM, 60–65; CMMW2, 75–100; RSGMWI, no. 14, 42

Notes

 

This manuscript was described in Inv. I, item III/6 as consisting of a single leaf (two pages): this is uncharacteristic of the compiler's normal practice which appears to have been to identify bifolios correctly as Doppelblätter.

This is a typical composition draft, with  numerous indications of instrumentation in both ink and pencil, several layers of correction. The song at this stage lacked its first bar.

   
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