Sieben Lieder, No. 4

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟ – AF4m

D-Mbs Mus.ms. 20862

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Title

[Mahler, black ink:] „Ich athmet' einen linden Duft‟ Rückert

Date

None

Calligraphy

Black ink, bar lines ruled in pencil, additions and annotations in brown ink and pencil

Paper

18 staves, J.E. & Cọ, Nọ 5 18 linig, upright format, watermark not recorded, 345 x 265 (r=not recorded)

Manuscript structure and collation

2 bifolios

	Folio	Commentary
	1r	bb. 1–6
	1v	bb. 7–13
	2r	bb. 14–20
	2v	bb. 21–27
	3r	bb. 28–33
	3v	bb. 34–36
	4r	Blank
	4v	Blank

Provenance

According to Henry-Louis de La Grange, this manuscript was given by Alma Mahler to Artur Bodanzky (1877–1939), who early in his career as a conductor, from 1908 onwards, had performed Mahler in central Europe and Russia; placed on loan at the Pierpont Morgan Library c. 1987 by John Bernstein; offered for sale at Sotheby's (New York) on 27 June 1989; acquired by the Bavarian State Library in 1990.

Facsimiles

Complete colour facsimile

Select Bibliography

GMBMBS, 226–227; NAMR 18 (October 1987), 5; NAMR 25 (March 1991), 6–8.

Notes

This manuscript reveals that the celeste was not part of the original instrumentation of the song: its stave was added below the viola part in brown ink and with hand drawn bar lines; a footnote in the same brown ink referring to the harp part in b. 1–2 indicates that 'diese beiden Harfen-ackorde [sic] nur wenn keine Celeste vorhanden ist' ('these two harp chords [to be played] only if no celeste is available'). In fact, the parts of these two instruments in the passage were further refined (as were their parts in the song's final chord) in the Stichvorlage (ACF4m). On the other hand this score confirms that Mahler originally called for a piccolo in bb. 1–2.

The first page of the score also includes a brown-ink note: Dirigent: Langsamer Viertel.