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Notes
1

Adelio Viani (d. 8.iv.1965) taught at the Royal Irish Academy of Music 1917-1964 and founded the opera class there in 1922.

 
2

Sumner Austin (1888–1981 was an English baritone and opera producer.

 
3

Specht is referring to Mahler's settings of texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn as a totality, and is indicating that it was in 1905 (with the Kahnt publications of Revelge and Der Tamboursg'sell) that the whole corpus was available for the first time.

 

 

 

Des Knaben Wunderhorn – Printed Collections

 

 

 

Collective Volumes

 

       

The voice and piano versions were initially issued only in the original keys, compiled into collective publications: either a single volume or in a set of three volumes. When the copyright was acquired by Universal-Edition in 1910 these original versions were reissued in a pair of volumes.

In 1914 the songs were republished by Universal-Edition: the musical text of the voice and piano scores was revised to bring it more in line with that of the orchestral versions: this involved not only changes to and additions of various performance markings but also the standardisation of the vocal line and the verbal text. The revised versions were now issued in two volumes for either high or low voice: for the former nos 1, 6 and 12 were transposed up a tone, for the latter nos 2–5,  7–11 were transposed down a tone. In these parallel editions and all subsequent printings of both high and low voice piano scores of no. 11, „Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang”, Mahler’s voice and piano version – which had been printed in the earlier compilation volumes – was replaced by a revised arrangement by J. V. von Wöss. From 1920 English versions of the texts, by Annie Funk, were included in the piano-vocal scores.

The full scores of the voice and orchestra versions were never issued in a collective volume, only separately, in the original keys, although transposed versions (high- and low-voice, including parts) were available for hire from Universal-Edition. The necessary transpositions were presumably prepared after 1914, and were advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

A two-volume miniature score compilation of nos. 1–10 in the original keys, was issued in parallel editions by Universal-Edition and Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag in 1924.

   
  PRINTED VOCAL SCORES - Original Keys
PVc1.1   FIRST EDITION, in one volume – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft]/Weinberger, 1899
     

Title Page: [type A, brown on cream paper:] Des / Knaben Wunderhorn. / Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Orchesterbegleitung / von / GUSTAV MAHLER  / [left: decorative image; centre: listing of individual songs and prices of the orchestral scores] / rule / [Listing, with prices of the complete single-volume issue, and the 3 volume issue of the piano and voice versions] / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereinsarchiv. Mit vorbehalt aller Arrangements  / · JOSEF WEINBERGER · / [centre:] WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] // [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse N°· 13 / [right:] Paris / 78 Rue d'Anjou. / [below border:] Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Co. Wien VII. / 4425/99.

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: type A (brown on mottled green); back wrapper: blank]

       

Analysis: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 375=music; [76]=blank

N.B. the page numbers are always placed in the top outer edge margin of the page.

       

Dimensions: 335 x 260 (r =  229)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Co. Wien VII. / 4425/99. [tp]; Stich der Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Co. Wien, VII. [p. 3]

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: iii.1900    Price: Mk 6 n.

        Text: German
       

Edition number: none    Plate number: 1–73=12; 74–75=4  12 [See the commentary below for an explanation of this anomaly.]

       

Contents:

       
 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

A major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

A major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

F major pp. 20–24  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

BGraphic: flat sign phrygian    pp. 25–31  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

C minor pp. 32–40  
 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

A major pp. 41–45  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

D minor pp. 46–54  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

D minor pp. 55–60  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

D major pp. 61–65  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

F major pp. 66–71  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

DGraphic: flat sign major pp. 72–75  

 

       

Copies: A-Wst AC13630512 (not examined); A-Wn Mus MS2956-4° (Pflichtexemplar: recorded as Mus 186/1899 17. X. 99; bound copy); Mus MS67492-4º (ex coll. Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, bequest 1951); GB-Lpc (with autograph inscription); D-B Mus. Km 35

        Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii
       

There is no evidence for the size of the original print run: rather unusually the UE Verlagsbuch does not record the transfer of unsold copies of the Eberle/Weinberger edition in November 1910, probably because UE was not going to offer a single-volume edition, and (perhaps) had already printed stock of its own two-volume edition (see PVc2 below).

The collection was originally issued in two formats: as a single collective volume, with continuous pagination at the top outer margins; and in three volumes, each separately paginated (in volumes II and III, at the bottom outer margin) and on slightly larger paper. The plates for No. 12, Urlicht (pp. 72–5) were not prepared by Eberle, but were engraved by C.G. Röder for the publication of the vocal score of the symphonic movement by Hofmeister in 1895: Hofmeister had assigned the song the plate number 4, but on pp. 74–75 this was not removed when the new EWZG number was added for its inclusion in the Wunderhorn volumes. The differences in the design of the punches (e.g. for the letterpress, the crotchet rest and the clefs) used by the two firms is clearly visible:

Shows 1-4 of Urlicht in the piano-vocal version (D flat major)

Fig. 1

Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Vienna: EWZG/Weinberger, 1899), Urlicht, bb. 1–4

(engraved by Röder)

 

Shows bb. 1-4 of the piano-vocal version (F major)

Fig. 2

Des Knaben Wunderhorn, „Es sungen drei Engel‟, (Vienna: EWZG/Weinberger, 1899), bb. 1–4

(engraved by Jos. Eberle & Co. (EWZG))

 

The note on the catalogue record for the Pflichtexemplar (see above) indicates mid-October 1899 as the terminus ante quem for the first print run.

The inscription on the GB-Lpc copy is:

Facsimile of the inscribed front cover

Fig.3

Dedication copy: title page (detail)

 

Nro 1. In Anhoffnung einer gebührenden / Anzahl von den mit Recht so beliebten / Granatäpfeln der dich sehr liebende / Knabe.

In anticipation of a appropriate number of the justly very popular pomegranates[,] from your very loving boy.

The identity of the recipient is by no means certain, but a strong candidate  is the soprano Selma Kurz (1874–1933). She had been singing at the  Frankfurt Opera House for a couple of years when she made a highly successful guest appearance at the Vienna Court Opera, and Mahler offered her a contract to commence in the 1899–1900 season. She replaced the indisposed Rita Michalek as the soloist in the first Viennese performances of three of his Wunderhorn songs at a Philharmonic Concert on 14 January 1900, and by March of that year they were beginning a short-lived affair. Their age difference would provide an additional context for Mahler's playfully casting of himself in the role of 'Knabe'.

     
PVc1.2   FIRST EDITION, in three volumes – Vienna: [Erste Wiener Zeitungs-Gesellschaft]/Weinberger, [1899]
     

Title Page: [type A: brown on cream paper, within rectangular border:] Des / Knaben Wunderhorn. / Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Orchesterbegleitung / von / GUSTAV MAHLER  / [left: decorative image; centre: listing of individual songs and prices of the orchestral scores] / rule / [Listing, with prices of the complete single-volume issue, and the 3 volume issue of the piano and voice versions] / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten. / Eigenthum des Verlegers für alle Länder. / Eingetragen in das Vereinsarchiv. Mit vorbehalt aller Arrangements  / · JOSEF WEINBERGER · / [centre:] WIEN / Kohlmarkt 8 / [rule] // [left:] Leipzig / Querstrasse N 13 / [right:] Paris / 78 Rue d'Anjou. / [below border:] Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & C Wien VII. / 4425/99.

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper, type A; back wrapper: blank (vol. I: brown on mottled grey; vol. II: brown on yellow; vol. III: brown on mottled green); back wrapper: blank]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 324=music; [25–6]=blank; vol. II: [1]=tp; 231=music; [32]=blank; vol. III: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 323=music; [24]=blank

       

Dimensions: 345 x 265 (r = 229)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Co. Wien VII. / 4425/99. [tp]; Stich der Musikaliendruckerei v. Jos. Eberle & Co. Wien,VII. [p. 3]

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German
       

Hofmeister: iii.1900    Prices: vol. I: Mk 2 n., vol. II: Mk 3 n., vol. III: Mk 2 n.

       

Edition number: none    Plate number: vol. I: 12a., vol. II: 12b., vol. III: 12c.

       

Contents:

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

A major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

A major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

F major pp. 20–24  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

BGraphic: flat sign phrygian    pp. 2–8  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

C minor pp. 9–17  
 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

A major pp. 18–22  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

D minor pp. 23–31  

 

 

Heft III

 

 

 

 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

D minor pp. 3–8  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

D major pp. 9–13  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

F major pp. 14–19  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

DGraphic: flat sign major pp. 20–23  

 

       

Copies: Try A-Wn F117.Riehl.1239 (ex. coll. Isolde Riehl (1901–1992), with annotations (not yet examined)); GB-Lpc; US-Wc M1614 M212

 

 

 

 

Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii

       

There is no evidence for the size of the original print run: rather unusually the UE Verlagsbuch does not record the transfer of unsold copies of the Eberle/Weinberger edition in November 1910, probably because UE was not going to offer a three-volume edition, and had already printed stock of its own two-volume edition (see PVc2 below). Further research into the colour of the original wrappers (not normally preserved in library copies) may be fruitful.

         
PVc2   SECOND EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, in two volumes – Vienna: [publisher(s) uncertain], 1910
        Text: German
        Print ordered: 14.iii.1910    Copies received: 18.iii.1910   Print run: 100
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: [vol I: 1691; vol II: 1692]   Plate number: vol. I: [UE 1691], vol. II: [1692]

       

Copies: none located

       

The UE Verlagsbuch reveals that in 1908 two edition numbers were assigned to the voice and piano versions of Mahler's Wunderhornlieder but that at the time no copies were ordered. It seems likely that the plan was to issue these volumes 'In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen', but split between two, not three volumes, and that the delay in the placing of an order may have been connected with management changes at EWZG following Josef Stritzko's dismissal as Director in 1908.

As early as 1909 the new head of UE, Emil Hertzka, was considering the acquisition the publishing rights in the music of Bruckner and Mahler owned by EWZG, but the letter of agreement is dated 21 June 1910 so this small batch of copies recorded in the Verlagsbuch may well have been issued under the Weinberger imprint as originally planned in 1908; an alternative explanation might be that these were 'advance' copies printed in anticipation of the acquisition of the rights by UE. Unfortunately no copies have been located that can be identified as exemplars of this issue.

     
PVc2a   SECOND EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, in two volumes – Vienna: Universal Edition, 1910
        Text: German
        Print ordered: 10.xii.1910    Copies received: 16.xii.1910   Print run: 97 (vol. I); 100 (vol. II)
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: [vol I: 1691; vol II: 1692]   Plate number: vol. I: [UE 1691], vol. II: [1692]

       

Copies: none located

 

 

 

 

Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii

       

Unfortunately no copies have been located that can be identified as exemplars of this issue.

         
PVc2b  

SECOND EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, SECOND IMPRESSION, in two volumes – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1911

     

Title Page: [type Ab: dark brown on cream paper. A revised version of the original title page: the original imprint has been replaced with that of Universal-Edition and all prices have been omitted.]

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: type D; lilac decorative border on light blue, text in black] [In top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL–EDITION· / [in next shield:] 1691 [ 1692] / [in main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN”FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME MIT KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / HEFT I [II] / No. 1—6 [7—12]; [back wrapper: type A, adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE, dated Y IV.1911]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 340=music; vol. II: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 315 x 235 (r = 231)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm R. v. WALDHEIM, JOS. EBERLE & Co. WIEN [tp]; Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm R. v. Waldheim- Jos. Eberle & Co. [p. 3 in vol. I only]

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German
        Print ordered: 01.iv.1911    Copies received: 21.iv.1911 (vol. I); 05.v.1911 (vol. II)  Print run: 300
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691; vol II: 1692    Plate number: vol. I: U.E. 1691, vol. II: U.E. 1692.

       

Contents: [as in PVc2]

       

Copies: GB-Lpc

 

 

 

 

Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii

       

Thanks to the dated adverts on the back wrapper, the copy described can be firmly associated with the 1911 printing recorded in the UE Verlagsbuch.

         
PVc2c  

SECOND EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, THIRD IMPRESSION, in two volumes – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1912

     

Title Page: [type Ab: dark brown on cream paper. A revised version of the original title page: the original imprint has been replaced with that of Universal-Edition and all prices have been omitted.]

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: type D; lilac decorative border on light blue, text in black] [In top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL–EDITION· / [in next shield:] 1691 [ 1692] / [in main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN”FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME MIT KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / HEFT I [II] / No. 1—6 [7—12]; [rear wrappers not present in the copy described]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 340=music; vol. II: [1]= tp; [2]=blank; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 307 x 232 (r = 230 [vol. 1/1]) (bound copy)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm R. v. WALDHEIM, JOS. EBERLE & Co. WIEN [tp]; Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm R. v. Waldheim - Jos. Eberle & Co. [vol I, p. 40;  vol. II, p. 37]

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German
        Print ordered: 11.i.1912    Copies received: 03.ii.1912   Print: 500
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691; vol II: 1692    Plate number: vol. I: U.E. 1691., vol. II, p. 3–33: U.E. 1692.; p. 34–37: U.E. 1692.2938.

       

Contents: as in PVC2

       

Copies: A-Wn MS 4091-4°

        Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii
       

Page 34 - the first page of 'Urlicht' - states Copyright 1911 by Universal-Edition, and also bears a double plate number, U.E. 1692.2938. relating to the vocal score of 'Urlicht' first issued separately by UE in May 1911. This suggests that the copy described must be of the 1912 issue of the Wunderhorn volumes.

     

 

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES - for high voice

PVc3h   THIRD EDITION, in two volumes, for high voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914
     

Title Page: [type Ba; orange decorative design, text in black; in main shield:] 12 / GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT ORCHESTERBEGLEITUNG / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / [listing of all twelve songs in two columns] / HOCH TIEF / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'EXECUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION‟ / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN. — LEIPZIG.  

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: type D; lilac decorative border on light green, text in black] [In top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL–EDITION· / [in next shield:] 1691a [ 1692a] / [in main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN” / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME MIT KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / HEFT I [II] / No. 1—6 [7—12]; [back wrapper: type Aa;  adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE, dated Y IV.1914, text in black on green card.]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt; 3-40=music; vol. II: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt; 3-37=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 308 x 235 (r = 227)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm. R. v. Waldheim - Jos. Eberle & Co. [vol. I: p. 40]

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Print ordered: 01.iv.1914 (vol. I), 03.iv.1914 (vol. II)   Copies received: 26.xi.1914   Print run: 496 (vol. I); 502 (vol. II)

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691a; vol II: 1692a   Plate number: vol. I: U.E. 1691a + the plate numbers for individual songs (3639a–3644a), vol. II: U.E. 1692a + the plate numbers for individual songs (3645a–3649a, 2938a)

       

Contents:

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

C major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

A major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

A major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

F major pp. 20–24  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

BGraphic: flat sign phrygian    pp. 25–31  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

D minor pp. 32–40  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

A major pp. 3–7  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

D minor pp. 8–16  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

D minor pp. 17–22  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

D major pp. 23–27  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

F major pp. 38–33  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 34–37  

 

       

Copies: Try A-Wn MS55096-4°; GB-Lpc (vol. I only); A-Wst Mc-23938 (vol. II only; not examined)

        Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii
       

The collection was reissued in high- and low-voice versions, with the contents listed on p. 2 of all four volumes; the paper size is very slightly smaller, and the addition of the suffixes a and b to the edition and plate numbers differentiates between the two vocal ranges. For the high-voice volumes nos 1, 6 and 12 have been transposed up a tone. At the same time the musical text of all the songs has been corrected, and revised to bring it more in line with that of the orchestral versions: this involves not only changes to and additions of various performance markings but also the standardisation of the vocal line.

In this edition and all subsequent printings of both high and low voice and piano scores of no. 11, „Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang”, Mahler’s voice and piano version - that had been printed in the earlier compilation volumes - is replaced by a revised arrangement by J. V. von von Wöss.

The UE Verlagsbuch records that there were two further issues, in 1916 (500 copies) and 1920 (vol I: 490 copies; vol. II: 498 copies): see below.

     
PVc3ah  

THIRD EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, in two volumes, for high voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1916

     

Title Page: [type Bb, orange decorative design, text in black; in main shield:] 12 / GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT ORCHESTERBEGLEITUNG / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / [listing of all twelve songs in two columns] / HOCH TIEF / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'EXECUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION‟ / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN. — LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1914 BY UNIVERSAL-EDITION.

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: type D; lilac decorative border on light green, text in black] [In top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL–EDITION· / [in next shield:] 1691a [№ 1692a] / [in main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN” / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME MIT KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / HEFT I [II] / No. 1—6 [7—12]; [rear wrappers: type B; adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE, dated V.1916.]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=Inhalt; 3-40=music; vol. II: [1]=tp; [2]=Inhalt; 3–37=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: vol. II: 310 x 237 (r = 197)

        Watermark: none
       

Printer: Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm R. v. Waldheim - Jos. Eberle & Co. [vol. I: p. 40]; no such statement in vol. II.

       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Print ordered: 17.v.1916 (vol. I); 18.v.1916 (vol. II)    Copies received: 21.vi.1916   Print run: 500
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691a; vol II: 1692a   Plate number: vol. I: [no copies located, but c.f. vol. II details], vol. II: p. 2: U.E. 1691 a/b. 1692 a/b.; [first page of each song (pp. 3, 8, 17, 23, 28, 34):] Universal-Edition Nr. 1692ª· + the plate numbers for individual songs (3645ª·–3649ª·, 2938ª·); [later pages of each song:] U.E. 1692ª· + the plate numbers for individual song (3645ª·–3649ª·, 2938ª·).

        Contents: as in PVc3h
       

Copies: GB-Lpc (vol. II only);  NL-DHgm 54 B 193 (vol. II only)

       

Although this issue is substantially the same as PVC3h, there are some differences: the registration of the black ink text on the title page has been improved; the front wrapper as been reset and the adverts on the rear wrapper revised. But most significantly each song is now provided with an indication as to whether it is of high or low tessitura (hoch, tief) and whether it is at original pitch (Original-Ausgabe) or transposed (Transponierte Ausgabe):

colour facsimile of the opening of Wo die Trompeten blasen in the second edition, second impression of the high-voice piano-vocal score

This is the only post-1914 high-voice collective issue so far located to provide this information (the 1914 low-voice edition (PVC3t), however, did also adopt this format), although at least one individual song (Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, PV9h2a) was issued from this state of the original plates.

According to the UE Verlagsbuch there was no corresponding issue of the low voice volumes in 1916.

         
PVc3bh   THIRD EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, in two volumes, for high voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920
       

Print ordered: 14.xi.1919    Copies received: 25.v.1920 (vol. I); 28.iv.1920 (vol. II)   Print run: 490 (vol. I); 496 (vol. II)

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Copies: none located

       

The early date of the print order suggests that this particular publication was not the first to include the English version by Annie Funk.

     
PVc4h   FOURTH EDITION, in two volumes, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1921
     

Title Page: [Type Da: a passe-partout title page that includes all of Mahler's songs that were available from Universal-Edition]

       

Wrapper: [Front wrapper: type E, dark green on green paper, within rectangular lozenge border:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE AUS „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN” / 12 SONGS FROM „THE YOUTH'S MAGIC HORN” / [lh:] HOCH [rh:] HIGH / I [II] / No. 1–6 [7–12] / [rectangular lyre design] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 1691a [1692a]; [rear wrapper, vol I: type Ba; advert for the music of Mahler published by UE, dated:] XI.1920; [Rear wrapper lacking in the GB-Lbl copy of vol. II.]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt / Contents; 340=music; vol. II: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 305 x 233 (r = 229 (vol. I))

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Waldheim-Eberle A.G. [vol. I: title page and rear wrapper]
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German and English (English version by Annie Funk)
        Print ordered: 20.xi.1920 (vol. I),   Copies received:  20.i.1921 (vol. I); 18.i.1921 (vol. II)  Print run: 1000 (vol. I); 995 (vol. II)
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691a; vol II: 1692a   Plate number: vol. I: U.E. 1691a + the plate numbers for individual songs (3639a–3644a); vol. II: U.E. 1692a + the plate numbers for individual songs (3645a3649a, 2938a)

       

Contents:

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

C major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

A major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

A major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

F major pp. 20–24  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

BGraphic: flat sign phrygian    pp. 25–31  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

D minor pp. 32–40  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

A major pp. 3–7  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

D minor pp. 8–16  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

D minor pp. 17–22  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

D major pp. 23–27  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

F major pp. 38–33  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 34–37  

 

       

Copies: GB-Lpc (vol. I only: ex coll. Adelio G. Viani, signed and dated 25.06.1921¹); GB-Lbl G.1033 (2.) (bound copy, front wrappers only; red date stamp, vol. I, p. 40; vol. II, p. 37: 23 MR 1923)

       

The text of this edition is that of the third, with the addition of English translations of the sung text (by Addie Funk) and most of the German performance instructions, that have simply been inserted into the original engraving: the result of this and the previous layer of additions is a cluttered graphical image, far removed from the relative elegance of the original engraving. The paper is acid and of inferior quality. Mahler’s voice and piano version of no. 11, „Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang”, has been replaced by a revised arrangement by J. V. von von Wöss. The UE Verlagsbuch records that there were further issues, in 1922, 1928 and 1932 (vol. I) and  1923, 1929 and 1936 (vol. II) (all listed below),  a total of 1800 and 1786 further copies respectively.  

         
PVc4bh  

FOURTH EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, volume I only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1922

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 20.xi.1920    Copies received: 10.ii.1922   Print run: 1000
       

Copies: none located

         
PVc4ch  

FOURTH EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, volume II only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1923

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 24.viii.1922    Copies received: 15.i.1923   Print run: 994
       

Copies: none located

         
PVc4dh  

FOURTH EDITION, FOURTH IMPRESSION, volume I only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1928

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 14.xii.1927    Copies received: 05.iii.1928   Print run: 497
       

Copies: none located

     
PVc4eh  

FOURTH EDITION, FIFTH IMPRESSION, volume II only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1929

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 23.iv.1929    Copies received: 13.vi.1929   Print run: 499
       

Copies: none located

     
PVc4fh  

FOURTH EDITION, SIXTH IMPRESSION, volume I only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1932

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 05.vii.1932    Copies received: 21.vii.1932   Print run: 303
       

Copies: none located

     
PVc4gh  

FOURTH EDITION, SEVENTH IMPRESSION, volume II only, for high voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1932

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 26.viii.1936    Copies received: 11.ix.1936   Print run: 293
       

Copies: none located

     

 

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES - for low voice

PVc3t   THIRD EDITION, in two volumes, for low voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914
     

Title Page: [type Bb; orange decorative design, text in black; in main shield:] 12 / GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT ORCHESTERBEGLEITUNG / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / [listing of all twelve songs in two columns] / HOCH TIEF / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [in lower shield:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / DROITS D'EXECUTION RÉSERVÉS / „UNIVERSAL-EDITION‟ / AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT / WIEN. — LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1914 BY UNIVERSAL-EDITION

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper, type D; lilac decorative border on light green, text in black] [In top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL–EDITION· / [in next shield:] № 1691b [1692b] / [in main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE / AUS / „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN” / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME MIT KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / HEFT I [II] / No. 1—6 [7—12] / [lowest shield:] TIEF; [back wrapper, type B; adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE, dated Nr. 12. III.1914]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt; 340=music; vol. II: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: [vol. 1:] 308 x 237 (r = 230)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none listed
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German
        Print ordered: 20.04.1914    Copies received: 26.11.1914   Print run: vol. I: 302; vol. II: 297
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: vol I: 1691b; vol II: 1692b   Plate number: vol. I: p. 2: U.E. 1691 a/b. 1692 a/b.; p. 3–40 [first page of each song (pp. 3, 10, 14, 20, 25, 32):] Universal-Edition Nr. 1692b. + the plate numbers for individual song (3639b.–3644b.); [later pages of each song:] U.E. 1692b. + the plate numbers for the individual song (3639b.–3644b.).

       

Contents:

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

G major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

G major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 20–24  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

A phrygian    pp. 25–31  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

C minor pp. 32–40  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

G major pp. 3–7  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

C minor pp. 8–16  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

C minor pp. 17–22  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

C major pp. 23–27  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 38–33  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

DGraphic: flat sign major pp. 34–37  

 

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-180614 (vol. I only); GB-Su MS22, xx M 302.M2 (ex coll. Anna Mahler; not yet examined)

        Select bibliography: SWXIII/2b, xvii-xviii; NKGXIII/2b, xvii-xviii
       

The Collection is now issued in high and low voice versions, with the contents listed on p. 2 of all four volumes; the paper size is very slightly smaller. For the low voice volumes nos 2–5,  7–11 have been transposed down a tone. At the same time the musical text of all the songs has been revised to bring it more in line with that of the orchestral versions: this involves not only changes to and additions of various performance markings but also the standardisation of the vocal line. In the case of the low-voice volumes there is a further innovation (not adopted in the parallel high-voice version): each song is now provided with an indication as to whether it is of high or low tessitura (Hoch, Tief) and whether it is at original pitch (Original-Ausgabe) or transposed (Transponierte Ausgabe):

Colour facsimile of the start of the first system on p. 3 of the third edition of the low-voice piano-vocal score

In this edition and all subsequent printings of both high and low voice and piano scores of no. 11, „Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang”, Mahler’s voice and piano version - which had been printed in the earlier compilation volumes - is replaced by a revised arrangement by J. V. von von Wöss.

     
PVc3at   THIRD EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, volume II only, for low voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1916
        Text: German
        Print ordered: 18.v.1916    Copies received: 21.vi.1916   Print run: 299
       

Copies: none located

       

This impression may have incorporated some of the features of the third edition, second impression of the high-voice version (PVc3ah), the most significant of which was that each song was provided at the start with an indication as to whether it is of high or low tessitura (Hoch, Tief) and whether it was at original pitch (Original-Ausgabe) or transposed (Transponierte Ausgabe). The UE Verlagsbuch records no parallel impression of the first volume.

     
PVc3bt   THIRD EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, volume I only, for low voice – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920
        Text: German
        Print ordered: 14.04.1919    Copies received: 27.05.1920   Print run: 496
       

Copies: none located

         
PVc4t   FOURTH EDITION, in two volumes, for low voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1921
        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
       

Print ordered: 28.v.1920 (vol. II); 20.xi.1920 (vol. I)    Copies received: 28.i.1921 (vol. II); 31.i.1921 (vol. I)   Print run: 1000 (vol. I); 495 (vol. II)

       

Contents: [conjectural]

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 3–9

 

 

2.

Verlorne Müh'! (Schwäbisch)

G major pp. 10–13  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

G major pp. 14–19  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?!

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 20–24  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

A phrygian    pp. 25–31  
 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

C minor pp. 32–40  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

G major pp. 3–7  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Thurme

C minor pp. 8–16  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

C minor pp. 17–22  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstands

C major pp. 23–27  
 

11.

„Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang‟

(Frauenchor aus der 3. Symphonie.) Für eine Stimme bearbeitet     

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 38–33  
 

12.

Urlicht.

(Alt Solo aus der 2. Symphonie)

DGraphic: flat sign major pp. 34–37  

 

       

Copies: None located

       

The text of this edition is that of the third edition, with the addition of English translations of the sung text (by Addie Funk) and most of the German performance instructions, that have simply been inserted into the original engraving: the result of this and the previous layer of additions is a cluttered graphical image, far removed from the elegance of the original engraving. Mahler’s voice and piano version of no. 11, „Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang”, has been replaced by a revised arrangement by J. V. von von Wöss.

The UE Verlagsbuch records that there were further issues, in 1923, 1928 (vol. I) and 1921 and 1922 (vol. II), listed below: a total of 1297 and 1995 further copies respectively.

     
PVc4at   FOURTH EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, volume II only, for low voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1921
        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 13.ix.1921    Copies received: 10.x.1921   Print run: 995
       

Copies: none located

     
PVc4bt   FOURTH EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION, volume II only, for low voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1922
     

Title Page: [type Da: a passe-partout title page that includes all of Mahler's songs that were available from Universal-Edition]

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper, type E; dark green border on light green, text in dark green] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE AUS „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / 12 SONGS FROM „THE YOUTH'S MAGIC HORN‟ / [l.h.:] TIEF [r.h.:] LOW / I / No. 7–12 / [rectanhular lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL–EDITION / Nr. 1692 b; [rear wrappers, type Ba; adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE: Nr. 24 IX. 1922]

       

Analysis: [1]= tp; [2]=Inhalt / Contents; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 306 x 233 (r = 196)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Weag. [p. 37]
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German and English (English version by Annie Funk)
        Print ordered: 27.vii.1922    Copies received: 04.xi.1922   Print run: 1000
       

Copies: GB-Lpc (ex coll. Meriel St. Clair)

     
PVc4cl   FOURTH EDITION, FOURTH IMPRESSION, volume I only, for low voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1922/3
     

Title Page: [type D, a passe-partout title page that includes all of Mahler's songs that were available from Universal-Edition]

       

Wrapper: [Dark green border on light green, text in dark green] GUSTAV MAHLER / 12 GESÄNGE AUS „DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN‟ / 12 SONGS FROM „THE YOUTH'S MAGIC HORN‟ / [l.h.:] TIEF [r.h.:] LOW / I / No. 1–6 / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL–EDITION / Nr. 1691b; [rear wrappers: adverts for the music of Mahler published by UE: Nr. 24 I. 1923 (see facsimile)]

       

Analysis: vol. I: [1]=tp; [2]=Inhalt; 340=music; vol. II: [1]=tp; [2]=Inhalt; 337=music; [38]=blank

       

Dimensions: 306 x 237 (r = 231)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Waldheim-Eberle A.G. [back wrapper]
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German and English (English version by Annie Funk)
        Print ordered: 29.xii.1922    Copies received: 23.i.1923   Print run: 1000
       

Edition number: vol. I: 1691b; [vol. II: 1692b]   Plate number: vol. I: U.E. 1691b + the plate numbers for individual songs (3639b–3644b), [vol. II: U.E. 1692a + the plate numbers for individual songs (3645b–3649b, 2938b)]

       

Contents: as for PVc4l

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 9200152 (vol. I only; ex coll. Sumner Austin²)

       

The new UE wrapper design was gradually introduced after 1919.

     
PVc4dl  

FOURTH EDITION, FIFTH IMPRESSION, volume I only, for low voice, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1928

        Text: [German and English (English version by Annie Funk)]
        Print ordered: 04.vii.1928    Copies received: 11.viii.1928   Print run: 207
       

Copies: none located

     

Selection for Voice and Piano

     
PVS1l   FIRST EDITION, for low voice, Eng/Ger – New York: Boosey & Hawkes Inc., 1943
     

Title Page: [left:] Low Voice [right:] High Voice / Eight Songs / from / "The Youth's Magic Horn" / BY / GUSTAV MAHLER / English Translation by / NANCY BUSH / $2.00 / [with rules above and below:] VOICE AND PIANO / HAWKES AND SON (LONDON) LTD. / [column 1:] LONDON / 295 Regent Street // [column 2:] NEW YORK / 43 West 23rd Street // [column 3:] SYDNEY / 250 Pitt Street // [column 4:] TORONTO / 10a Shutter Street // [column 5:] CAPETOWN / 84 Loop Street / [left:] U.S. Bk No. 92 [right:] Printed in U.S.A. [see also facsimile].

       

Wrapper: [fwr: image in dark brown tones, text in black on light brown:] [top right:] LOW VOICE / [head and shoulders portrait of Mahler by Orlik, facing right (MA, 212)] / Eight Songs / by / Gustav Mahler / [left:] Low Voice / [right:] High Voice / Boosey & Hawkes / [fwv = blank] / [bwr = blank] / [bwv = black logo on light brown: see facsimiles]

       

Analysis: [i]=tp; [2]=[table of contents and note]; [iii-iv=texts and translations of songs 1–5]; [1=texts and translations of songs 6–8]; 2–56 = songs:

       
 

1.

Rhine Legend / Rheinlegendchen

G major pp. 2–7

 

 

2.

Sentinel's Night Song / Der Schildwache Nachtlied 

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 8–15  
 

3.

Far over the Hill / Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?

EGraphic: flat sign major pp. 16–20  
 

4.

Comfort and Sorrow / Trost im Unglück

G major pp. 21–27  
 

5.

Where the shining trumpets blow /

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

C minor   pp. 28–34  
 

6.

Life on earth / Das irdische Leben

A phrygian  pp. 35–42  
 

7.

St. Anthony and the Fishes

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

C minor pp. 43–52  
 

8.

Primeaval Light / Urlicht

DGraphic: flat sign major pp. 53–56  
       

Dimensions: 311 x 235 (r = 203 [p. 2])

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none identified
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: English (Nancy Bush) and German
       

Edition number: none   Plate number: H. 15478

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-990063

       

This volume was probably initiated and its production supervised by Erwin Stein, who was on the staff of Boosey & Hawkes. The reasons for publishing only a selection of the twelve Wunderhorn Lieder are not apparent. The edition was clearly based one of the later UE issues, but details of the music text (including the casting-off) were revised, and Nancy Bush's English translation is rather more idiomatic than Addie Funk's version for U.E.

The complex web of copyrights relating to these songs is summarized at the foot of the first page of each song:

Colour facsimile of the Copyright summary stated at the start of each song

Fig. w

Alma Mahler-Werfel had been renewing Mahler's copyrights in the USA for a number of years, including those for the the eight that Boosey & Hawkes Inc. wished to publish – Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (high voice), Das irdische Leben (low voice), Rheinlegendchen (low voice), Trost im Der Schildwache Nachtlied (low voice) Trost im Unglück (low voice), Urlicht (high voice), Verlorne Muh' (low voice), Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (low voice) – registered on 10 October 1941. According to the Library of Congress Catalogue of Copyright Entries, part 3, vol. 38, no. 1, 1943, the collection was subsequently registered by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., on 19 February 1943 (see Fig. x).

The translator, Nancy Bush (d. 1991) was the sister of the composer Michael Head (1900–1976), and the wife (and librettist) of the composer Alan Bush (1900–1995). The copy described was sent to her by Erwin Stein with an accompanying note (see Fig. y).

 

Fig. x

 

Fig. y

     

 

PRINTED MINIATURE SCORES - original keys

     
PMc  

FIRST EDITION, in two volumes, Ger/Eng – Vienna: Universal-Edition/Wiener Philharmonia Verlag, 1924

     

Title Page:  [Black text on cream (see facsimile):] DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN / LIEDER FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME / MIT ORCHESTER BEGELEITUNG / [l.H.:] THE YOUTH'S MAGICHORN / Songs for a solo voice / with Orchestra // [r.h.] LE COR MAGIQUE / Chansons pour / une voix avec orchestre / by  von  par / GUSTAV MAHLER / PARTITUR / [l.h.:] SCORE // [r.h.] PARTITION / I  [II] / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten  Performing rights reserved Droits d'exécution réservés / [rule] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION A.G. / WIEN  NEW YORK

       

Wrapper: [dark green border and text on green card; front wrapper=type B; see also facsimile; back wrapper=advert, dated: Nr. 65 VII 1924 (see facsimile)

       

Analysis: vol. I: frontis. recto=blank; verso=portrait photo (MA 21); [i]= tp; [ii-iii]=Inhalt/Contents and notes, in German, English and French, by Richard Specht; [iv] Orchestra [in German, English, French, Italian]; 199=music; [100]=blank; vol. II: frontis. recto=blank; verso=portrait photo variant of MA 12); [i]= tp; [ii-iii]=Inhalt/Contents and notes, in German, English and French, by Richard Specht; [iv] Orchestra [in German, English, French, Italian]; 1100=music.

       

Dimensions: 184 x 134 (p. 1: r = 134)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none identified
       

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Print ordered (vol. I):  24.vii.1924    Copies received: 04.x.1924   Print run: 2500 (U.E. 460; WPhV. 2040)

       

Print ordered (vol. II): 24.vii.1924    Copies received: 04.x.1924   Print run: 2500 (U.E. 460; WPhV. 2040)

       

Hofmeister: xi.1924

       

Edition number: vol I: U.E. 7506; vol II: U.E. 7507   Plate number: U.E. 7506 W.Ph.V. 219; vol II: U.E. 7507 W.Ph.V. 220

       

Contents:

       

 

 

Heft I

 

 

 

 

1.

Der Schildwache Nachtlied

BGraphic: flat sign major pp. 1–27

 

 

2.

Verlor'ne Müh'!

A major pp. 28–41  
 

3.

Trost im Unglück

A major pp. 42–62  
 

4.

Wer hat dies Liedel erdacht?!

F major pp. 63–73  
 

5.

Das irdische Leben (tiefe Stimme)

BGraphic: flat sign phrygian    pp. 74–99  

 

 

Heft II

 

 

 

 

6.

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt  

C minor pp. 1–25  
 

7.

Rheinlegendchen

A major pp. 26–38  
 

8.

Lied des Verfolgten im Turm

D minor pp. 39–72  
 

9.

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

D minor pp. 73–85  
 

10.

Lob des hohen Verstandes

D major pp. 86–100  

 

       

Copies: A-Wst AC13608011 (not examined); GB-Lbl B.1003.(1.) (WPhV issue, bound copy, red date stamp, : 23 MAR 1948); GB-Lpc 2-18062019; 2-21092017 (vol. II only, ex coll. Donald Mitchell)

       

In 1924 a completely re-engraved new edition of songs 1–10 only was prepared by UE and the Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag (W.Ph.V.) in reduced format (185 x 135) and issued with different wrappers. The house style for the Wiener Philharmonia Verlag included an insistence that all German tempo markings, and other instructions had to also appear in Italian translation and the vocal text is given in German and English – resulting, despite the best efforts of the engravers, in an often cluttered (though useable) score. The same plates were used for the parallel issues, and bear double plate numbers; the notes by Richard Specht are printed in German, English and French.

Specht concludes by reporting, misleadingly, that 'The >Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn< were written in the years 1888–1900 and completely published for the first time in 1905.'³ This is undoubtedly the source of the serious misstatements in the Bibliographical Note [!] and Note on pp. [ii–iii] of the Dover reprint (2001), which claims to reproduce two volumes issued by Universal-Edition in 1905. In fact what is offered in this volume is a very ugly enlargement of the 1924 UE/Philharmonia miniature score.

b&w facsimile of the OUBC advert for the Philharmonia series.

 

       

All of the following should only appear on the pages of the individual songs, though an index might be included here.

 

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES SINGLE SONGS

  No.2 VERLORNE MUH'
        Musik Beilage to Deutsche Arbeit II/1 (September 1911) See Pilsner Tagblatt 22 Sep. 1911, p. 4. Also see the advert in OUBC, 1911
         
  No. 4 Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
    FIRST EDITION - Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914
        Title Page: Das moderne Lied: Eine Sammlung von 50 Gesängen für mittlere Stimme ausgewählt von Josef V. von Wöss
   
 

No. 7 RHEINLEGENDCHEN

    ?? EDITION - Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1924
        Title Page: [Musik für Alle - Mahler-Heft]
       

Analysis:

       

Dimensions

        Watermark
        Printer
       

Printing method

        Print ordered:    Copies received:    Print run:
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number    Plate number:

        Copies: A-Wn F21.Berg.199 Mus (Berg's copy, with his annotations)
        See Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Band I: Das Kaiserreich, 1897-1918.
   
 

No. 9 WO DIE SCHÖNEN TROMPETEN BLASEN

        Title Page: [Musik für Alle - Mahler-Heft]
       

Analysis:

       

Dimensions

        Watermark
        Printer
       

Printing method

        Print ordered:    Copies received:    Print run:
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number    Plate number:

        Copies: A-Wn F21.Berg.199 Mus (Berg's copy, with his annotations)
   
 

PRINTED FULL SCORES SINGLE SONGS

         
 

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS SINGLE SONGS

         
        Consider also Eight Songs from The Youths magic horn (Hawkes, (1943), H, 15479 (GB-Su MS22, xx M 302.M2 (ex coll. Anna Mahler; not yet examined)
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