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Alma's currently incomplete copy of Mahler's autograph full score
(AF5h)
was probably written in 1902 or 1903, and its original
reading of bar 15 was a 6/4 measure. However, later – after Emil Zöphel had
prepared a manuscript piano-vocal score for medium voice (ACV5m),
probably in January 1905,
that also used the long form of bar 15 – Mahler, first in pencil and
later in ink, revised his autograph piano-vocal score (AV5h)
to revert to the original, shorter form of the bar found in
SS52 (see
SHGoI, 27): the three later scores (AF5h,
ACF5h and ACV5m)
were subsequently adjusted accordingly.
This reversion to the shorter reading of b. 15 was clearly made
at a late stage, possibly after the first two performances.
In the meantime, in
January 1905 it was decided that the first performance, on 29
January, would be sung by a baritone, Friederich Weidemann and a
transposed piano-vocal score (ACV5m) and orchestral score and
parts (ACF5m,
[CO5m]) were quickly prepared. The new
medium-voice score differed from the F major version in a number of
respects, some of the changes no doubt being introduced during
rehearsals. However, when it was decided to publish the song in
both keys, no attempt was made to incorporate new readings from
the newly transposed score into Alma's copy, which, unaltered, was used as the printer's copy for the
engraving of the first edition of the high-voice orchestral
score (PF5h1).
The plate number of 4474, was added to
both 1r and 2r, along with 4475, the number assigned to the
orchestral parts for this F major version. On fol. 1r, left-hand
upper corner, an oval stamp:
Musikalien-Verlag / C. F. Kahnt / Nachfolger /
LEIPZIG; below this, in pencil (unidentified hand):
Zum Stich; a reference number, 56897 in blue pencil in an
unidentified hand appears in the top right-hand corner. At the foot of
the page a label has been pasted on: [unidentified hand, ink:]
Alle Rechte vorbehalten / [printed:] Eigenthum des
Verlegers für alle Länder / C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger,
Leipzig.
The manuscript probably originally consisted of 6 folios,
perhaps arranged thus: |
