PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

Title Page: A(o)

Wrapper: fwr=A(o); fwv=blank; bwr=blank; bwv=Kahnt advert A

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=blank; 3–23=music; [24]=blank

Dimensions: 325 x 265 (r=184)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 4465

No proofs for this edition (engraved from the printer's copy, ACF2m) have been located. Until 1917, when the E minor/D minor transposition was published, this D minor/C minor version (the original key) was described on title pages as 'hoch'.

A comparison of the layout, engraving and other features of this score with those of Revelge (PF1h1, which was certainly copy-edited, cast-off and engraved by EWZG in Vienna) reveals significant differences, providing strong evidence that this score was originated entirely by Brandstetter in Leipzig:

a) Although quite similar, the punches for clefs, dynamics etc. differ slightly

b) The two scores adopt different styles for the content and layout of instrument details

c) In Der Tamboursg'sell the bar lines are drawn continuously, from top to bottom of the score; in Revelge they break at the bottom of the stave above and restart at the top of the stave below the vocal line.

d) In Der Tamboursg'sell the printing area on the page is smaller (diagonal across the complete system (16 staves): 262mm; stave size: 14mm) than that in Revelge (diagonal across the complete system (19 staves): 343mm; stave size: 14mm)

N.B.: for reasons of layout, these examples are not to the same scale

Title Page: A(o)

Wrapper: black on grey = tp G; back wrapper verso = Kahnt advert Ab

Edition number: 3744   Plate number: 4465

The printed sheets are as in PF2m1 (presumably unsold stock or a later impression from unaltered plates) within wrappers from 1916 or later. The A-Wn copy has the UE edition number '3744' added in pencil at the foot of the front wrapper (there is no other indication on this copy that it is a UE issue); on the front wrapper of the GB-Lbl copy, the price of the score has been over-printed with a rubber stamp 49.— (probably c. 1920–1922), and 3774B added in pencil at the top of the wrapper.

The GB-Lbl copy (together with a number of other Mahler items acquired at the same time) was supplied by the firm of J. Curwen & Co which had taken over from Breitkopf & Härtel as the UK agent for Universal-Edition after the First World War (RMRT, 200): this indicates that UE was supplying copies of scores for sale without necessarily re-branding them as 'In die Universal-Edition aufgenommen'. The pencil annotation of the British Library copy also relates to the entry in the UE Verlagsbuch which records the assignment of a single U.E. edition number, 3744, but with no suffix or other annotation to identify the specific transposition, and that eight copies (transposition(s) unspecified) had been received on 8.x.1919.  There are no records of any further orders, although scores and parts in all three vocal ranges continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – medium voice

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number: none   Plate number: 4466

The printer's copy for this publication was probably the manuscript set prepared for the early, pre-publication performances in 1905 ([CO2m]). Not yet examined. The UE Verlagsbuch indicates that a UE edition number, 3745, was assigned to the orchestral parts (without specifying any vocal range); although no orders are recorded, the medium-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – medium voice

Edytha ('Ditha') Moser (22 April 1883–3 November 1969) was the daughter of the industrialist Karl Ferdinand Mautner Markhof (1834–1896) and trained as an architect under Josef Hofmann at the Kunstbewerbschule, and later worked as a graphic artist until 1918.

Along with her first husband, the artist and designer Koloman Moser (1868–1918), Edytha was a member of Mahler's inner circle of Viennese friends. These proofs were one of five such gifts he presented to her, apparently at the time of her marriage to Moser (1 July 1905) and as in the other proof copies, the cover of the song bore an autograph dedication to her:

All five sets of proofs were stolen from Karl Moser in 1928, but at  least four (excluding Um Mitternacht) were recovered in 1932 and offered for sale later that year. Two sets of proofs from the set are at Stanford (Kindertotenlieder (APVmpr) , and „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ (APV5h1pr) but the other three have not yet been located. For further details, see the short essay, Lost and Found: the Edytha Moser Collection of Mahler Proofs.

Title Page: A(k)

Wrapper: none seen

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 338 x 269 (r=201)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4464

Copies:  A-Wn MS 67490-4°/5 (Anna von Mildenburg Bequest; no wrappers, no markings); D-B Mus. Km 33 (not seen); GB-Su MS22, xx M 302.M2 (ex coll. Anna Mahler; not yet examined); US-Wc M1614.M214 (copyright entry: 7.viii.1905)

No proofs for this edition (engraved from the printer's copy, ACV2m) have been located, but see [APVmpr] above. Until 1917 this D minor/C minor version (the original key) was described on title pages as 'hoch'.

Title Page: C(k)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–9=music; [10]= Kahnt advert type B

Dimensions: 319 x 260 (r=202½)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4464

This is a later impression on slightly smaller sheets.

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, D minor/C minor – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1910

Title Page: C(ku)

Wrapper: [Front wrapper=UE type A, violet on green, text in black:] [upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [lower shield:] № 2783 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / DER TAMBOURSG'SELL / [lowest shield:] HOCH / [back wrapper: UE advert type B; date code:] X. 1910.

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert type B

Dimensions: 343 x 274 (r=203)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2783  Plate number: 4464

This issue consists of the music sheets of PV2m1a in UE wrappers. It is notable that the dates of the print order and of delivery are identical and match the date code on the back wrapper.

The layout of the UE Verlagsbuch and the early printings of the song are misleading. Until early 1917 the D minor/C minor version was described as being for high-voice (see PF2m1) so the UE records showing orders placed in 1910, and 1914 for ed. no. 2783a (the UE edition number subsequently re-assigned to the E minor/D minor version) must have been for the medium voice version described here. Copies of the low-voice version could have been ordered in 1910, but were not: it is therefore probable that the two orders placed in 1917 were for it and the recently printed E minor/D minor version, and these were both re-ordered in 1920. If these suppositions are correct the original pattern of orders can be reconstructed thus:

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, SECOND impression D minor/C minor – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914

Edition number: U.E. 2783   Plate number: 4464

Hofmeister: not entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K. 7481

The basic information is gleaned from the copy of the parallel UE issue of the edition (see below), but the dating of the new edition - which was re-engraved to accommodate the English translation - is not quite certain: the plate number suggests early 1917 (the adjacent numbers are for Mahler publications listed in the January 1917 issue of Hofmeister's Monatsbericht), but the prefix C.F.K. may suggest a date in late 1918 or 1919.

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, D minor/C minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1919

Title Page: J(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / DER TAMBOURSG'SELL / THE DRUMMER BOY / [l.h.:] MITTEL [r.h.:] MEDIUM VOICE / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2783b; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 325 x 249 (r=171)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2783b  Plate number: C.F.K.7481

The song has been re-engraved to incorporate the English translation: the tempo and other markings have been translated into Italian, and the music is enclosed within a single-line, rectangular border. According to the UE Verlagsbuch no further orders were placed for the medium-voice piano-vocal score.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  none  Plate number: [7785]

The basic information is gleaned from the copy of the parallel UE issue of the edition (see below). The version for high voice and orchestra was transposed by Max Puttmann in 1916–17 and his manuscript (CF2h) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located. In the absence of a Hofmeister entry the plate number, though suggests that it was part of a batch of newly engraved plates for the Mahler songs prepared in late 1917.

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, E minor/D minor  – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1919

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–19=music; [20]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 340 x 271 (r=253)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing with some letterpress in the header and footer of p. [2]

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  UE 3744  Plate number: 7785

The UE Verlagsbuch assigns only a single edition number (3744) to the score(s) of the song, although eight scores (transposition(s) unspecified) were ordered on 8.x.1919; there are no records of any later orders, although the high-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

The New York branch of UE was established in 1920 (UE25, 17).

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – high voice

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  3745  Plate number: [7786]

Presumably these parts were autographirt from CF2h; it is a pencil editorial annotation on the latter manuscript that provides the plate number for the part set.

The UE Verlagsbuch indicates that a UE edition number, 3745, was assigned to the orchestral parts (without specifying any vocal range); although no orders are recorded, the high-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – high voice

Hofmeister: i.1917

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 7480

The version for high voice and piano was presumably transposed by Max Puttmann in 1916 and his manuscript ([CV2h]) would have served as the printer's copy; neither it nor proofs have been located. The plate number suggests that the piano-vocal score was engraved (and perhaps prepared) before the transposed full score.

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, E minor/D minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna, Universal-Edition, 1917

Edition number:  2783ª  Plate number: 7480

The association of the copy listed above with this issue is conjectural: detailed description desirable.

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, SECOND impression, E minor/D minor, Ger/Eng – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna, Universal-Edition, [1920]

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: [Front wrapper=UE type A:] [upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [lower shield:] № 2783ª / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / DER TAMBOURSG'SELL / [lowest shield:] HOCH / [back wrapper: Universal-Edition advert, code K (no date)]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 332 x 250 (r=171½)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from  engraved plates

Edition number:  2783ª  Plate number: 7480

The music is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. For an explanation of the rather misleading layout of the Verlagsbuch entry, see Fig. 1 and the notes to PV2m1b. Nevertheless, the association of type A UE wrappers with such a late printing is anomalous. UE placed no further orders for the high-voice version.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – low voice

Title Page: H

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–19=music; [20]=advertisement

Dimensions: 332 x 254 (r=277)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from writing with some letterpress in the header and footer of p. [2]

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 7789

The version for low voice and orchestra was transposed by Max Puttmann, 1916–17 and his manuscript (CF2t) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located. In the absence of a Hofmeister entry the plate number, suggests that it was part of a batch of newly engraved plates for the Mahler songs prepared in the second half of 1917.

The UE Verlagsbuch assigns only a single edition number, 3744, to the score(s) of the song, although eight scores (transposition(s) unspecified) were ordered on 8.x.1919. There are no records of any later orders and no copy of a UE issue of the the low-voice orchestral score has been located, although the low-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – low voice

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number:  none  Plate number: unknown

Presumably these parts were autographirt from CF2t.

The UE Verlagsbuch indicates that only a single UE edition number, 3745, was assigned to the orchestral parts (without specifying any vocal range); although no orders are recorded, the low-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

PRINTED VOCAL SCORES – low voice

Hofmeister: i.1917

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 7482

The version for low voice and piano was presumably transposed by Max Puttmann in 1916 and his manuscript ([CV2t]) would have served as the printer's copy; neither it nor proofs have been located. The plate number suggests that the piano-vocal score was engraved (and perhaps prepared) before the transposed full score.

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, C minor/B minor, Ger/Eng  – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [1917]

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / DER TAMBOURSG'SELL / THE DRUMMER BOY / [l.h.:] TIEF [r.h.:] LOW / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2783c; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 326 x 248 (r=173)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2783c  Plate number: C.F.K.7482

Title Page: L

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–9=music; [10]=advertisement

Dimensions: 306 x 244 (r=173)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from  engraved plates

Edition number:  none  Plate number: 7482

This impression is not otherwise documented in independent surviving sources.

FIRST EDITION, UE issue, SECOND IMPRESSION, C minor/B minor, Ger/Eng  – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [1920]

Title Page: K(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / DER TAMBOURSG'SELL / THE DRUMMER BOY / [l.h.:] TIEF [r.h.:] LOW / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2783c; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]–9=music; [10]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 306 x 244 (r=173)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from  engraved plates

Edition number:  2783c  Plate number: 7482

According to the Verlagsbuch, UE placed no further orders for the low-voice version.