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Title
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Front wrapper, autograph in
black ink: Rückert / Kindertotenlieder /
Nro 1–5 / Partitur |
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Date |
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[March 1905] |
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Calligraphy |
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Josef Strohs, black ink, with
autograph annotations in
pencil and blue crayon, and annotations in pencil by Kahnt and
Brandstetter staff |
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Paper |
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| 12 staves, J.E. & Co. N°·
10, upright format,
?watermark, ??? x ??? (r=xxx) |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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17 fol. bound in grey |
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Provenance |
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Supplied to C.F. Kahnt under contract;
transferred to A-Wigmg (as
N/5 Ki/31); on loan at
A-Wn since 2007 |
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Facsimiles |
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None located |
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Select Bibliography |
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SWXIII/3, StV I, p. vi;
SWXIV/3, StV I, p. vi.;
RKGMK, 161 |
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Notes |
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Mahler met Alfred Hoffmann, the
director of C.F. Kahnt Verlag since 1902, on 28 November
1904 while in Leipzig to conduct a performance of the Third
Symphony (GMBaA,
234;
GMBaAE, 192):
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Eben war ein Verleger (Kahnt) bei mir,
und bewarb sich mit Leidenschaft um die neuen Lieder
und Balladen. Ich werde ihm von Wien aus die
Clavierauszüge schicken, und er wird mir dann ein
Angebot machen. |
I've just had visit from a publisher
(Kahnt), who is eager to acquire my new songs and
ballads. I'll send him the piano arrangements from
Vienna, then he willl make me an offer. |
In fact it was not until early March the following year that
Mahler got around to having the copies made and sent to
Leipzig (GMBsV,
161):
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Ich laße meine Lieder copiren, und werde Ihnen
dieselben Anfangs nächster Woche zur Durchsicht
einsenden.
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I'm having my songs copied and will
send you them for perusal at the beginning of next
week.
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Meine Bedingungen sind: 50 Prozent von den Brutto-
Einnahmen, und einen Vorschuß, über dessen Höhe wir
uns zu einigen habe[n]. – Meine Adresse für nächste
Woche ist Hamburg, Hotel Streit. |
My terms are: 50 percent of the gross revenue and an advance
to be agreed by us.
– My address next week is Hamburg, Hotel Streit.
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The negotiations were quickly concluded and Mahler signed
his contract with Kahnt on 13 April 1905. The agreed advance
was 500 Mk for each composition.
One interesting feature of this manuscript copy supplied to
Kahnt by
Mahler is that the second song is notated, as it had been in
SS2, in C
minor, but on its title page bears the note 'Nro. 2 /
um ½ halben
tiefer zu transponieren'. The requested transposition in C minor
(CV2), was prepared
by an unidentified Leipzig copyist – who was also responsible
for some of the manuscript parts of the Sixth Symphony (ACO)
–
and is kept with ACV: it served as the printer's copy for
the song (PVm1),
and its version of the fourth song formed the basis of an
advance edition issued as as a music supplement to the
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, in May 1905 (PV4).
[Has this been used for performance?]
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