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Title
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„Ich bin der
Welt abhanden gekommen‟ / von Rückert |
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Dedication &
Date |
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Meinem theuren
Freund / Guido Adler / (der mir nie abhanden
kommen möge) / als ein Andenken von seinen / 50.
Geburtstag / Wien [overwrites scratched out numeral:]
1. November 1905 / Gustav Mahler |
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Calligraphy |
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Black ink, pencil
(ruled bar lines, revisions, additions), red pencil (revisions),
blue pencil (revisions) |
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Paper |
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20 staves, J.E. & Cọ
, Nọ
6, 20 linig, upright format,
no watermark, 344½ x 263 (r=282–283) |
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B |
18 staves, J.E. & Cọ
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Nọ
5, 18 linig, upright format,
no watermark, 344–346 x 264–265 (r=271–272) |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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Fol.¹ |
Sign.
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Paper
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Notes |
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1r |
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A |
Outer wrapper, presumably provided
by Adler:
a) Pencil, (Adler?), deleted in blue crayon: transcription of
bars 1–11;
b) Blue crayon, (Adler?): Autograph /
Gustav / Mahler |
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1v |
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blank |
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2r |
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B |
Inner wrapper with autograph title
and dedication (see above) |
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2v |
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Blank |
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3r |
[1] |
B |
bb. 1–7 |
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3v |
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bb. 8–14 |
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4r |
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bb. 15–21 |
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4v |
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bb. 22–27 |
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5r |
2 |
B |
bb. 28–33 |
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5v |
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bb. 34–39 |
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6r |
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bb. 40–45 |
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6v |
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bb. 46–51 |
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7r |
3 |
B |
bb. 52–57 |
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7v |
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bb. 58–64 |
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8r |
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bb. 65–67. Music ends |
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8v |
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Blank |
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9r |
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B |
Blank: inner wrapper |
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9v |
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Blank |
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10r |
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A |
Blank: outer wrapper |
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10v |
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Blank |
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Provenance |
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A gift to Guido Adler to mark his 50th
birthday on 1 November 1905; appropriated c. 1941 by Richard
Heiserer, the lawyer appointed by the Austrian Government to
administer the Adler estate; Richard Heiserer jun., by
'inheritance' in 1957; following litigation returned to Guido
Adler's grandson, Tom Adler, in 2004; offered for sale at
Sotheby's on 21 May 2004 and purchased by Gilbert Kaplan; placed
on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; offered for
sale on 23 May 2017, lot 224;
placed on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library by Robert
Lehmann, 2017. |
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Facsimiles |
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Colour facsimile:
GKIB, 51–70 |
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Select Bibliography |
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GKIB;
SWXIII/4
[Ms II], xv;
SWXIV/4
[Ms II], xv;
DM2 141;
HLGII 791–3; Musical Manuscripts
[catalogue for sale L17402] (London: Sotheby's, 2017), 36–7. |
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Notes |
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It is only possible to suggest a
date range for this autograph, bounded on the one hand by the
approximate terminus ante quem provided by the completion
of the autograph fair copy of the piano vocal score (AV5h)
and on the the vague terminus post quem represented by
Alma Mahler's preparation of her manuscript copy (ACF5h)
c. 1902–3. Within this frame a date of late 1901 might be
thought most probable.
The full score was prepared by
Mahler on the basis of an early state of his piano-vocal score (AVh),
in which bar 15 was a 6/4 measure. However, after Mahler
had adopted this reading in the full score (AF5h),
Alma had made her copy of the score (ACF5h)
and Emil Zöphel had
prepared a manuscript piano-vocal score for medium voice (ACV5m) Mahler, first in pencil and
later in ink, revised AV5 to revert to the original, shorter
form of the bar found in
SS52 (see
SHGoI, 27): the three later scores (AF5, ACF5 and ACV5) 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.
The significance of Mahler's
gift of this autograph to Guido Adler, and Adler's response is
admirable summarized by the late Edward Reilly, quoting in part
from an unpublished draft in Adler's unpublished papers (ERGA,
103):
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Adler's 50th birthday, 1 November
1905, marked an occasion on which, more concretely
than on any other, Mahler gave direct expression of
his reciprocal feeling for his friend. 'With
embrace, kiss and a dedication....', he presented
Adler with the autograph score of one of his
greatest songs, 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'.
That Adler carefully refrained from mentioning this
gift in any of his published writings on Mahler may
give some indication of his feelings about
publicizing personal relations in his historical
work. He refers to it only in an unpublished
Nachwort, originally written to conclude his
study of 1914 when it was issued in book form in
1916, but he subsequently discarded this afterword
in favour of the briefer and less personal
Vorwort found in the published volume.
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Sadly the
final years of their friendship were somewhat clouded by the
antagonism that developed between Adler and Alma.
The paper measurements show an unusual degree of variation.
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