Kindertotenlieder – Printed Editions

PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

Title Page: [A(o): black on cream:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / VON RÜCKERT / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME / MIT KLAVIER ODER ORCHESTER / [decorative rule] / No. 1. NUN WILL DIE SONN' SO HELL / AUFGEHN / No. 2. NUN SEH' ICH WOHL, WARUM / SO DUNKLE FLAMMEN / No. 3. WENN DEIN MÜTTERLEIN / No. 4. OFT DENK' ICH, SIE SIND NUR / AUSGEGANGEN / No. 5. IN DIESEM WETTER / Die 5 Gesänge sind als ein einheitliches, untrennbares Ganze gedacht und es muss / daher bei einer Aufführung derselben die Continuität (auch durch Hintanhaltung von / Störung, w.z.B. Beifallsbezeugungen am Ende einer Nummer) aufrecht erhalten werden. / [centred:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT / VORBEHALTEN. / [left:] ORCHESTER-PARTITUR M9,_ / ORCHESTER-STIMMEN M 15,_n. // [centre: within a box, the CFK logo] // [right:] AUSGABE MIT / ORCHESTER // [within box below:] EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER. / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN. / C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / [below the box:] Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig

Wrapper: fwr=tp, but black on grey-green card (see facsimile); fwv/bwr=blank; bwv=Kahnt advert A

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–17=1 (4460a.); 18–32=2 (4460b.); 33–47=3 (4460c.); 48–59=4 (4460d.); 60–86=5 (4460e.); [87–88]=blank.

Dimensions: 335 x 268 (r=172)

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheets]

Printer: Stich u, Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 86]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Hofmeister: viii.1905

Text: German

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4460a.-e. (see the analysis, above)

Copies: ; A-Wigmg N/5Ki/15 (disbound, lacks wrappers, no watermark; marked up in red pencil by Zoltan Roman and Karl Heinz Füssl for SWXIV/3); A-Wigmg N/5Ki/12 (with watermark); GB-Lbl Hirsch M. 994 (no watermark); GB-Lpc 2-9200177; D-B Mus. Km 14 (not seen); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting 419

Title Page: Aa

Wrapper: fwr=tp Aa, but black on grey-green card; fwv=blank; the back wrapper is not present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–17=1 (4460a.); 18–32=2 (4460b.); 33–47=3 (4460c.); 48–59=4 (4460d.); 60–86=5 (4460e.); [87–88]=not present

Dimensions: 323 x 258 (r=172) [bound copy]

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheets]

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 86]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4460a.-e.  (see the analysis, above)

Copies: GB-Lbl H.2665.2 (bound copy; stamp: )

It has not been possible to suggest a narrower date-range for this copy: although the  title page cannot date from later than the second half of 1911, no information about the date of the French translation has been been discovered.

The pencil addition to the front wrapper of the GB-Lbl copy, 3758a, is presumably a reference to the edition number assigned to the full score of the cycle by Universal-Edition when the Viennese form ordered 5 copies on 4 March 1919. This was the only such order recorded in the UE Verlagsbücher: the copy was presumably supplied to the the library via J. Curwen & Sons Ltd, the post-WWI UK agents for UE, although the title page also bears the stamp of a music dealer in Königsberg:

Fig. 2: title page (detail)

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheets]

Printer: none identified

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Hofmeister: viii.1905

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4460a.-e. (see the notes below)

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200179 (this set may have one belonged to Jacoba Repelaer van Driel (1884–1967; see also the notes below)

The assignment of plate numbers is unexpected: the numeric component is the same as that for the full score, and as in that publication each song is assigned a separate alphabetic suffix. Publishers tended to avoid such duplications of plate numbers. The provision of separate oboe II and cor anglais parts was unnecessary: only one player was needed.

The GB-Lpc set was clearly used for performances with orchestras lacking some of the necessary wind instruments (e.g. bass clarinet and horns 3-4); it is also notable for the paste-overs in the vn II parts which provide an enharmonically respelled version of bb. 94–104.

PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORES – medium voice

Dimensions: 274 x 192 (r=161)

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: printed directly from the engraved plates

Facsimiles: none located

Select bibliography: NPCML, No. 625; SWXIII/3, source BA I, p. vii; Eulenburg, source BüKl, p. xviii.

Edytha ('Ditha') Moser (22 April 1883–3 November 1969) was the daughter of the industrialist Karl Ferdinand Mautner Markhof (1834–1896) and, along with her husband, the artist and designer Koloman Moser (1868–1918), was a member of Mahler's inner circle of Viennese friends: the cover of these proofs of the song cycle bears an autograph dedication to her. She trained as an architect under Josef Hofmann at the Kunstbewerbschule, and later worked as a graphic artist until 1918.[2]

Title Page: 

Wrapper: n/a

Analysis: [1]=title page, 2–3=music, [4]=advertisment

Dimensions: not recorded

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: ??

Select bibliography: Eulenburg, source NZfM, p. xviii.

Despite Mahler's stipulation that the cycle was to be considered an indivisible whole, the fourth song only was published as the music supplement to the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 72/20 (10 May 1905). (The periodical was at that time published by Kahnt).

This edition offers a version of the song that lies between those of the printer's copy (ACV), and the revised engraved text of APVmpr. [Need to locate a copy]

Title Page: [A(k): black on cream:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / VON RÜCKERT / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME / MIT KLAVIER ODER ORCHESTER / [decorative rule] / No 1. NUN WILL DIE SONN' SO HELL / AUFGEHN / No. 2. NUN SEH' ICH WOHL, WARUM / SO DUNKLE FLAMMEN / No. 3. WENN DEIN MÜTTERLEIN / No. 4. OFT DENK' ICH, SIE SIND NUR / AUSGEGANGEN / No. 5. IN DIESEM WETTER / Die 5 Gesänge sind als ein einheitliches, untrennbares Ganze gedacht und es muss / daher bei einer Aufführung derselben die Continuität (auch durch Hintanhaltung von / Störung, w.z.B. Beifallsbezeugungen am Ende einer Nummer) aufrecht erhalten werden. / [centred:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT / VORBEHALTEN. / [left:] ORCHESTER-PARTITUR M9,_ / ORCHESTER-STIMMEN M 15,_n. // [centre: within a box, the CFK logo] // [right:] AUSGABE MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / KOMPLETT M 4,_ // [within box below:] EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER. / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN. / C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / [below the box:] Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig

Wrapper: fwr=tp A(k),

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–7=1 (4459^a.); 8–12=2 (4459^b.); 13–17=3 (4459^c.); 18–22=4 (4459^d.); 23–31=5 (4459^e.); [32]=blank.

Dimensions: 274 x 192 (r=161) [bound copy: GB-Lpc]

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs vertically on some folios]

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Hofmeister: viii.1905

Text: German

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4459a.-e.  (see the analysis above)

Copies: D-B Mus. Km 15 (not seen); GB-Lbl E.1554.f. (bound copy; red stamp: 15 MAR 80); GB-Lpc 2-9200174 (bound copy, lacks wrappers); US-Wc M1614.M21 (accession date: 10.viii.1905)

It is notable that the large octavo page size adopted by Kahnt is significantly smaller than the quarto format used by Schott, Weinberger and EWZG for their early publications of Mahler's songs, and by Kahnt for the Sieben Lieder.

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4459a.-e. 

See RKGMK, 171.

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: 4459^a.-e. 

This was the first order placed by UE: it is not clear whether the sheets for this issue were part of the batch printed in 1908, or (perhaps less likely) they were a separate order to Kahnt not recorded in the few surviving internal documents of the firm.

Title Page: [A(k): black on cream:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / VON RÜCKERT / FÜR EINE SINGSTIMME / MIT KLAVIER ODER ORCHESTER / [decorative rule] / No 1. NUN WILL DIE SONN' SO HELL / AUFGEHN / No. 2. NUN SEH' ICH WOHL, WARUM / SO DUNKLE FLAMMEN / No. 3. WENN DEIN MÜTTERLEIN / No. 4. OFT DENK' ICH, SIE SIND NUR / AUSGEGANGEN / No. 5. IN DIESEM WETTER / Die 5 Gesänge sind als ein einheitliches, untrennbares Ganze gedacht und es muss daher bei einer Aufführung derselben die Continuität (auch durch Hintanhaltung von Störung, w.z.B. Beifallsbezeugungen am Ende einer Nummer) aufrecht erhalten werden./ [centred:] AUFFÜHRUNGSRECHT / VORBEHALTEN. / [left:] ORCHESTER-PARTITUR M9,_ / ORCHESTER-STIMMEN M 15,_n. // [centre: within a box, the CFK logo] // [right:] AUSGABE MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG / KOMPLETT M 4,_ // [within box below:] EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER. / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN. / C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER, LEIPZIG. / [below the box:] Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig

Wrapper: fwr=wrapper Aa (black on grey-green); fwv=Kahnt advert G; bwr=Kahnt advert F; bwv=Kahnt advert A

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=blank.

Dimensions: 276 x 194 (r=162)

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs vertically on some folios]

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4459a.-e.  (see the analysis above)

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-0002014

See RKGMK, 171. The title page (which, unlike front wrapper, does not refer to the English translation) and adverts are of different dates and offer conflicting information about the availability of Mahler's songs. The association of the copy described with the third impression of the first edition is on the basis that advert G indicates a date after c. October 1910 and the title page makes no reference to the Russian copyright legislation of 20 March 1911).

It is possible that the layout of the original plates was planned to allow for the subsequent incorporation of translations of the vocal texts: the  English words appear to have been added below the German original with no other modifications. Hence the bibliographic description used here is preferred to 'Second Edition'.

It is worth noting that  fol. 1 and 16 (i.e pp. 1/2 and 31/32), are narrower (191mm) is less than those in the rest of the gathering; a similar discrepancy can be found in PVm1p. Since these folios make up the  bifolio that forms the outer sheet of the gathering, it must be wondered whether the whole sheet (which carries the title page) was printed separately from the rest.

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

It is not clear whether the sheets for this issue were part of the batch printed in July 1911, or were a separate order to Kahnt not recorded in the few surviving internal documents of the firm. Either way, it seems likely that these were copies of the bilingual version.

Title Page: [M, orange border, text black on cream; in main panel:] KINDER- / TOTENLIEDER / (RÜCKERT) / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG ODER ORCHESTER / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n / No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen / No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein / No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen / No. 5. In diesem Wetter / [in lower panel:] AUFFÜRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER / C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER / LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG.

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green/yellow; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] No. 2776 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield: blank] HOCH; [back wrapper: UE advertisement, dated: X.1911]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; [3]–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=blank.

Dimensions: 275 x 194 (r=162)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: 4459a.-e. 

This is a rare example of a U.E. issue with a dated advert, and confirms that the bilingual version (i.e. first edition, second state) was introduced in 1911.

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4459a.-e. 

See RKGMK, 171. Presumably this was a printing of the bilingual version of the cycle. Given the closeness of the delivery dates of this print run, and PFm1e, it seems possible that these were part of a single print run of either 1000 or 1300 copies. (See the notes on publication for a further discussion of this issue.)

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Title Page: B

Wrapper: front wrapper=tp B: black text on light grey; back wrapper details not recorded

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=texts in German and French; 3–7=1 (6339a.); 8–12=2 (6339b.); 13–17=3 (6339c.); 18–22=4 (6339d.); 23–31=5 (6339e.); [32]=advertisement

Dimensions: not recorded

Watermark: not recorded

Printer: not recorded

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: 6339a.-e.

See RKGMK, 171. The conjectural association of the first impression of the second edition of the medium-voice vocal score (i.e. the first to offer the texts in German and French) with this print order is made here on the basis that the plate number of the copy described confirms that this re-engraved score [confirm] was prepared in 1912. Moreover, from the surviving rtecords it appears that at the end of 1911 Kahnt did not need to re-order the first edition, second state, as it was holding substantial stock of that version (see the notes on the publication history of the cycle).

It is striking that unlike John Bernhoff, the translator responsible for the French text, Mme Camille Chevillard (i.e. Marguerite Chevillard (née Lamoureux), d. 1941), is named on the title page and front wrapper, both of which are in French, not German.

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: none  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

See RKGMK, 171.

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Title Page: Aa

Wrapper: fwr=wrapper Ab, black on grey-green; fwv=Kahnt advert G; bwr=Kahnt advert F; bwv=Kahnt advert C

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; 3–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=Kahnt advert A.

Dimensions: 271 x 191 (r=161)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4459a.-e.  (see the analysis above)

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200175

The title page and adverts are of different dates and offer conflicting information about the availability of Mahler's songs, but the inclusion of Kahnt advert C indicates that the copy dates from 1915 or later, and title page Aa was probably not used after the end of 1918.

The page size and total span (r) are slightly smaller than earlier impressions that have been examined.

Title Page: [M, orange frame, text black on cream; in main panel:] KINDER- / TOTENLIEDER / (RÜCKERT) / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG ODER ORCHESTER / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n / No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen / No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein / No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen / No. 5. In diesem Wetter / [in lower panel:] AUFFÜRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN / EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER / C.F. KAHNT NACHFOLGER / LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG. / [below the frame:] In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green/yellow; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] No 2776 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield: blank]; [back wrapper: not present]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; 3–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=Kahnt advert Ac.

Dimensions: 267 x 186 (r=163) [bound copy]

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Edition number: 2776b  Plate number: 4459a.-e. 

The association the copy described with this particular UE issue is rather conjectural, not least because the mix of advertisements offers no clear guidance: whatever the date one or more of the adverts would have been anomalous.

Title Page: [Ma, orange frame, text black on cream; in main panel:] KINDER- / TOTENLIEDER / (RÜCKERT) / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG ODER ORCHESTER / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n / No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen / No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein / No. 4. Oft denk' ich sie sind nur ausgegangen / No. 5. In diesem Wetter / [in lower panel:] AUFFÜRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN / EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER / C.F. KAHNT,  / LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG. / [below the frame:] In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green/yellow; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] No 2776b / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield: blank]; [back wrapper blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; 3–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=Kahnt advert Ca.

Dimensions: 275 x 198 (r=163)

Watermark: none

Printer: not identified in the copy

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Edition number: 2776b  Plate number: 4459a.-e.

The variant of the title page, Ma, indicates that this copy was almost certainly prepared after late 1918, and the wrapper design of the front wrapper was replaced after 1919, so the copy described can be associated with this impression with some confidence.

The copy is also notable because the page size is generally slightly larger than that of the other copies examined; except, that is, folios 1 and 16 (i.e pp. 1/2 and 31/32), the width of which (191mm) is less than the rest of the gathering. A similar discrepancy can be found in PVm1c.  It is also apparent that the paper is of a slightly different quality (slightly thinner). Since these pages are printed on the bifolio that forms the outer sheet of the gathering, it must be wondered whether the whole sheet (which carries the UE title page) was printed separately from the rest, either in Leipzig or Vienna. (The fact that the printer's device - which normally appears on p. 31 - is absent might offer some support for the latter scenario.)

Title Page:  

Wrapper: fwr=wrapper Ab(u), black on grey-green; fwv=Kahnt advert Ga; bwr=Kahnt advert Ad; bwv=Kahnt advert Cb

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; 3–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=Kahnt advert Ad.

Dimensions: 271 x 191 (r=161)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: none  Plate number:  4459a.-e.  (see the analysis above)

Copies: A-Wigmg N/Ki/32

The title page and adverts are of different dates and offer conflicting information about the availability of Mahler's songs, but this copy cannot date from earlier than late 1917, and is probably rather later (see adverts Cb and Ad).

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

This was the last substantial order placed before WWII. Between 1931 and 1938 a further 12 small batches (11-55 copies) were ordered, a total of  275 copies (see the transcription of the UE Verlagsbuch for details)

Title Page: Ac

Wrapper: front wrapper: Ad; bwv blank; back wrapper: not present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; [3]–7=1 (4459a.); 8–12=2 (4459b.); 13–17=3 (4459c.); 18–22=4 (4459d.); 23–31=5 (4459e.); [32]=blank

Dimensions: 281 x 198 (r=163)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4459a.-e.

This copy is printed on very poor quality, acid paper that is very fragile and brown in colour. The absence of prices on the title page suggests that this copy was produced during the period of hyperinflation in the early 1920s.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

Hofmeister: no entry

Text: [German only?]

Edition number: none  Plate numbers: unknown

Copies: none located

No arranger's manuscript, printer's copy or proofs for the high-voice full score have been located, and the identity of the musician responsible for its preparation is unknown. Although orchestral parts (POh1) and a piano-vocal score (PVh1) for the high-voice version were listed in the December 1915 issue of Hofmeister's Monatsbericht, there is no reference there or in subsequent issues to a high-voice full score and no price for it was ever listed on the Kahnt title pages and advertisements examined: it seems unlikely that such a score was ever offered for sale, though copies must have been available for hire. The UE Verlagsbuch contains no reference to full scores or parts of the high-voice version, although the transposition continued to be listed in the firm's orchestral catalogues up to the late 1930s.

Hofmeister: xii.1915

Text: [German only?]

Edition number: none  Plate numbers: unknown

Copies: none located

No printer's copy or proofs for the high-voice orchestral parts have been located, and the identity of the musician responsible for the transposition's preparation is unknown. The UE Verlagsbuch contains no reference to full scores or parts of the high-voice version, although the transposition continued to be listed in the firm's orchestral catalogues up to the late 1930s.

PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORES – high voice

Hofmeister: xii.1915

Text: German and English

Edition number: none  Plate numbers: [C.F.K. 7430–34]

Copies: none located [But try A-Wn F102.Vondenhoff.3/N1687b Mus]

The decision to assign separate plate numbers to the individual songs in the cycle is notable.

Text: German and English

Edition number: 2776a  Plate numbers: C.F.K. 7430–34

Copies: none located

The UE issue of the high-voice version was not listed in Hofmeister.

Title Page: Ab

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] No 2776a / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield: blank]; [back wrapper: blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; 3–7=1 (7430); 8–12=2 (7431); 13–17=3 (7432); 18–22=4 (7433); 23–31=5 (7434); [32]=Kahnt advert A.

Dimensions: 272 x 190 (r=152) [bound copy]

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K. 7430–34  (see the analysis above)

Copies: GB-Lbl E.1554.e.(2) (green stamp: 15 SEP 91; bound copy; ex coll. J.L. Weldon)

The paper is much thinner than other copies of the vocal score that have been examined.

Title Page: Ma [orange frame, text black on cream; in main panel:] KINDER- / TOTENLIEDER / (RÜCKERT) / FÜR / EINE SINGSTIMME MIT / KLAVIERBEGLEITUNG ODER ORCHESTER / VON / GUSTAV MAHLER / No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n / No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen / No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein / No. 4. Oft denk' ich sie sind nur ausgegangen / No. 5. In diesem Wetter / [in lower panel:] AUFFÜRUNGSRECHT VORBEHALTEN / ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN / EIGENTUM DES VERLEGERS FÜR ALLE LÄNDER / C.F. KAHNT,  / LEIPZIG. / COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG. / [below the frame:] In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] No 2776a / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield:] HOCH; [back wrapper: blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; [3]–7=1 (7430); 8–12=2 (7431); 13–17=3 (7432); 18–22=4 (7433); 23–31=5 (7434); [32]=blank

Dimensions: 271 x 191 (r=158)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: 2776a  Plate number:  C.F.K. 7430–34  (see the analysis above)

Copies: GB-Lbbc 11211; GB-Lpc 2-0012014

The plate number prefix C.F.K. does not appear on the initial pages of songs, and the plate number is wholly lacking on p. 9.

Title Page: Ma

Wrapper: [front wrapper: UE type A, violet border on light green; text in black; top shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] No 2776a. / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / KINDER-TOTENLIEDER / SONGS ON THE DEATH OF INFANTS / [l.h:] HOCH // [r.h:] HIGH; / [bottom shield: blank]; [back wrapper: blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=complete German and English texts; [3]–7=1 (7430); 8–12=2 (7431); 13–17=3 (7432); 18–22=4 (7433); 23–31=5 (7434); [32]=blank

Dimensions: 275 x 195 (r=158)

Watermark: none

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p. 31]

Printing method: lithography from engraved plates

Text: German and English (English words by John Bernhoff)

Edition number: 2776a  Plate number:  C.F.K. 7430–34  (see the analysis above)

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-0012015

The plate number prefix C.F.K. does not appear on the initial pages of songs, and the plate number is wholly lacking on p. 9. Bibliographically this is very similar to the 1919 UE issue, but the quality of the material and workmanship has declined: the paper was slightly more absorbent, and the card used for the wrappers was very acid and as a result the colour is now  brown-green; the registration of the title-page is crooked.

Edition number: 2776a  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

Edition number: 2776a  Plate number: [4459a.-e. ]

According to the UE Verlagsbuch this was the last order placed for the high-voice vocal score, although it continued to be listed in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Title Page: see facsimile

Wrapper: fwr: facsimile; fwv, bwr=blank; bwv = advertisement (date code: IX. 22.)

Analysis: [i]=tp; [ii–iii]=[notes by Richard Specht]; 1–11=1; 12–24=2; 25–32=3; 33–41=4; 42–68=5

Dimensions: 185 x c.130 (p. 1: r=107) [bound copy]

Printing method: lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iv.1924    Prices: M 1,80

Edition number: 252    Plate number: W.Ph.V.252

This is a clear example of an advert date code NOT providing reliable evidence of the date of the copy.

The score is that of the medium-voice voice and has been entirely re-engraved and provided with tempo and other performance instructions in German and Italian. The collection title and the notes by Richard Specht are given in German, English and French, the vocal text in German and English only.

According to the UE Verlagsbuch this was the only print run before 1950.