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Title
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[Mahler, blue pencil:] Nro 2 / [Mahler: ink:] Rückert / Ich athmet' einen linden Duft
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Date |
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[1904–05] |
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Calligraphy |
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Copyist, Josef Strohs: black ink;
with annotations by Mahler and staff of C.F. Kahnt and Oscar
Brandstetter: blue and lead pencil |
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Paper |
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12 staves,
[logo] J.E. Nọ
10 (each system is barred and braced for solo
line and piano), upright format, no watermark, 345 x
265 (r = 276) |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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Folio |
Bars |
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Title page |
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1–14 |
| 2r |
15–27 |
| 2v |
28–36 |
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Provenance |
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Supplied to C.F. Kahnt under contract;
transferred to A-Wigmg (signature: N/Rü 1m/31); placed on loan to A-Wn
in 2007 |
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Facsimiles |
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None located |
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Select Bibliography |
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SWXIII/4,
StV I, ix;
SWXIV/4,
StV I, ix,
RKGMK, 162 |
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Notes |
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The precise date of this manuscript copy is not known: it may
have been originally prepared in 1904 for the first performances
of the song, or copied in February–March 1905 for dispatch to C.
F. Kahnt. It was certainly used as the printer's copy for the
engraving of the first edition (PV4m1),
and the plate number (4470) has been added to at the foot
of fol. 1r in red pencil. On fol. 1r: an oval stamp:
Musikalien-Verlag / C. F. Kahnt / Nachfolger /
LEIPZIG; with the reference number 56873 added in blue pencil in an
unidentified hand in the top right-hand corner.
It is noticeable that the letterpress elements needed on the
first page of the printed score are not entered in full: in
later manuscripts of the songs prepared for the printer they are
either wholly, or partially rubber stamped at the foot of the
page. Here their presence is merely indicated by the annotations
Verlag and Cop- [i.e. Copyright]: cf.
ACF4m,
ACV3m.
At some date this manuscript was folded in half, horizontally.
This is a relatively rare example of a Mahler-related manuscript
written on paper ruled and sold by Josef Eberle's second
business, founded in 1898 and located at Schottenfeldgasse 38
(see the brief note on
Eberle manuscript paper, and
PBFU, passim.). Such paper can be identified by the
trade mark which successfully adapts the design of the mark
registered to Jos. Eberle & Co in the early 1880s:
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Fig. 1
Josef Eberle (c. 1898)
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