Title

None

[At the end of the draft:] Maiernigg. / Son̄tag 9. Juni [1901]

Calligraphy

[Mahler:] black ink, lead pencil, blue pencil

Paper

18 staves, [J.E.] & Cọ, [Nọ 18 / 18 linig.], oblong format, no watermark, approx. 246–8 x 330–33 (r=223)

Manuscript structure and collation

Provenance

This manuscript was not included in either of the inventories of  Natalie Bauer-Lechner's autograph collection. Its history, up to its acquisition and binding by the collector F.G. Zeileis, is unknown; it was later acquired by the Austrian National Library.

Facsimiles

Complete colour facsimile [the draft is on p. 6 of the facsimile]

Select Bibliography

Online catalogue record; FGZ, 93.

Notes

When originally prepared, the song began like the sketch with what is now b.4 (staves 3–5): subsequently Mahler drafted three additional bars (bb. 1–3) on staves 1–2. There are numerous other revisions and deletions in the draft. The top, bottom and fore-edge of the bifolio have been unevenly and irregularly trimmed rendering most of the text of the paper maker's mark unreadable, but the design is unmistakably that of Eberle's registered trademark.