Sieben Lieder, 2

Der Tamboursg'sell – AF2m2

US-NYpm Lehmann Deposit M214.D441

1

When I examined this manuscript I was not certain whether the pencil annotation on 1r was autograph or not. If it is, then it might be tempting to read it as a date: 3 October 1901. Renate Hilmar-Voit is of the view that it dates from the summer of 1901 (SWXIV/2, 356).

Title

[Ink:] „Der Tamboursg'sell” / Ballade aus „des Knaben Wunderhorn” / Gustav Mahler [?non-autograph, pencil, top right hand corner:] 3 X 1

Date

[1901]

Calligraphy

Black ink, bar lines ruled in pencil, rehearsal letters in [?non-autograph] pencil

Paper

18 staves, J.E. & Cọ / Nọ 5, upright format, watermark not recorded, 342 x 265 (r=272)

Manuscript structure and collation

[10] fol.; the bifolia have been separated into individual sheets and mounted on stubs: the following is a speculative reconstruction of the original structure. The signature numbers are Mahler's.

Folio	Sign. No.	Commentary
1r		Wrapper: Title page
1v		blank
2r		Music commences
2v
3r
3v
4r	2
4v
5r
5v
6r	3
6v
7r
7v
8r	4
8v
9r
9v		Music ends
10r		Blank
10v		Blank

Provenance

Now part of the Robert Owen Lehman Collection

Facsimiles

None located

Select Bibliography

SWXIV/2, Ms, 356; NKGXIV/2, Ms, 392; DM2, 141; HLGII, 778ff.

Notes

This is the score of the revised version of the song (medium voice, in D minor-C minor) and, unlike the earlier autograph score (AF2m1), it uses upright format paper; unfortunately its date is uncertain.¹ It contains 170 bars; at the end Mahler has added a pencil note ? 1 Takt mehr and bar 171 was subsequently added. The total span of this paper varies from 271½–272½.