A Cartoon of Mahler

 

 

Symphony No. 1

Autograph orchestral part – AO

 

A–Wn F18.Schalk.443/6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  3. Clarinette / Bassclarinette in B.
Date
  [?inter 1894–6]

Calligraphy

  Autograph, ink, blue crayon [rehearsal numbers]

Paper

 

Cut down from a larger sheet:

?24 staves [only 13 here], no maker’s mark, upright format [originally], 180–182 x 270

Manuscript structure and collation

  1 fol.: [1r] = bb. 1–71 of the first movement; [1v] = blank

1r1 = 2nd line of title

1r2, 4, 6, 8. 10, 12–13 = blank

1r3, 5, 7, 9, 11 = music

Provenance

  Ex coll. Franz Schalk

Facsimiles

  None traced

Select Bibliography

  None traced

Notes

 

This fragment – perhaps a last-minute revision to be handed to a player – is currently housed with the early manuscript part set for the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in the Schalk Nachlaß. The text is an intermediate version of the passage: though it could have happened at any time, one occasion when it would have been very easy for this fragment to get mixed up with the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen material would have been the concert in March 1896 in Berlin, when Mahler conducted both works (the only occasion on which he did so). On the other hand, Mahler also conducted the Symphony in a concert organised and conducted by Schalk in Prague in March 1898.

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