Kindertotenlieder – Manuscripts

This page lists only surviving autograph and non-autograph manuscript sources (including those that have been offered for sale in recent years but whose whereabouts are currently unknown) and lost sources that have been documented or whose existence can be inferred from other sources.

Ex coll. Nina Maxwell-Jackson. Sketch of bb. 1-55

Ex coll. Ida and Hugo Conrat

Copyist's piano-vocal score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage for nos 1, 3–5]

Copyists' full score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage]

It is unlikely that Mahler prepared as separate autograph fair copy of the piano-vocal score: the Stichvorlage (ACV) was copied directly from SS2.

Complete draft in short score, notated in C minor

Copyist's piano-vocal score of the complete cycle; no. 2 is in C minor [=Stichvorlage for nos 1, 3–5]

Copyist's transposed piano-vocal score in C minor [=Stichvorlage]

Copyists' full score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage].

Preliminary sketch in pencil

Autograph piano-vocal score

Copyist's piano-vocal score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage for nos 1, 3–5]

Copyists' full score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage].

Ex coll. Natalie Bauer-Lechner; sold in 2006

Autograph piano-vocal score

Copyist's piano-vocal score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage for nos 1, 3–5]

Copyists' full score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage].

It is unlikely that Mahler prepared as separate autograph fair copy of the piano-vocal score: the Stichvorlage (ACV) was copied directly from SS5.

Ex coll. Alma Mahler. A sketch for bars 1-11

Complete draft in short score

Copyist's piano-vocal score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage for nos 1, 3–5]

Copyists' full score of the complete cycle [=Stichvorlage].

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