Kindertotenlieder – title pages

Although the passepartout title pages used for the separate issues of the Sieben Lieder eventually (from some time between 1907–11) included a listing of the Kindertotenlieder, the latter song cycle seems always to have been issued with its own title pages

Each main type is designated by a capital letter, followed by a lower case letter to identify a variant and where necessary by abbreviations in parentheses:

o = Orchesterausgabe

k = Klavierausgabe

u = UE oveprinting

The title pages used for the collective volumes (with piano and with orchestra) are listed at the end of the sequence.

	Title pages


Ao		June/July 1905
	The form of the title page used for the full score.


	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder PF1m (1905)

A(k)		1905
	The form of the title page used for the piano-vocal score.


	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder PV1m (1905)

Aa	German/English and French/German versions listed The listing of the published formats and prices has been replaced by the reference to the Russian copyright legislation of March 1911 Redesigned publisher's imprint Ducal appointment This layout appears to have been used for both the full scores and the piano and voice scores.	1911–18

	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PFm1 (1911–18) Kindertotenlieder, PVm1 (1915–18)

Ab /Ab(u)	The note about the performance of the song-cycle has been removed The availability of material for both voice ranges listed The listing of the published formats reintroduced, but with higher prices for the orchestral scores and parts Revised publisher's imprint Ducal appointment omitted Copyright statement reintroduced May include IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN (Ab(u)) The date of this title page is uncertain. The reference to the 1911 Russian legislation and the reference to the ducal appointment were both redundant by late 1918.	1918–19

	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PVh1 ([1918–19])

Ac	No reference to the French translation All prices omitted Reference to the Russian legislation omitted No reference to the copyright date	1920s


	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PVm1 (n.d.)

B	Prepared specially for use on the second edition (text in German and French)	1912–

	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PVm2 (1912)

M	Early UE title page: gives the publisher as C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger	1911–

	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PVm1 (November 1911) Kindertotenlieder, PVm1 (1917)

Ma	Identifies the publisher as C.F. Kahnt This shortened form of the firm's name (which was formally changed between late 1916 and mid 1917) was adopted in advertisements that appeared from late 1917 onwards, then from some date between 1918/early 1919 on title pages as front wrappers. (The exact chronological framework cannot be firmly established at present.)	1918–


	Exemplars: Kindertotenlieder, PVm1 (1919)