A Cartoon of Mahler

 

  Sieben Lieder, No. 5

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ – SS52

 

US-NYpm Cary 51

 

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1

Here, as elsewhere in such descriptions, small numerals are used to identify the staves used.

 

 

2

During the vacation they had briefly resumed their physical relationship (GKIB, 22).

 

 

3

The other 1901 song sketches included in the inventories were:

Ich armer Tambourg'sell. Sieben Lieder S2

Ich atmet' einen linden Duft. Sieben Lieder S4

• 'Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder'. Sieben Lieder  SS3m

• 'Wenn dein Mütterlein'. Kindertotenlieder [S1]

 

 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title

  None
Date
  MW [Maiernigg am Wörthersee?] 16. Aug 1901.

Calligraphy

  Ink, pencil; non-autograph pencil annotations on 1r: C1; and 1v: C2

Paper

  20 staves, J.E. & C  / No. 12ª / 20 linig., oblong format, watermark not recorded, 264 x 344 (r=223½)

Manuscript structure and collation

  1 folio:¹
   
 

1r1–3

thirteen bars = bb. 1–13

 

1r5–7

fourteen bars ≈ bb. 14–22

 

1r9–11

fourteen bars ≈ bb. 23–30

 

1r13–15

fourteen bars bb. 30–7

 

1r17–19

twelve bars bb. 37–45

 

1v1–3

nine bars ≈ bb. 46–53

 

1v5–7

twelve bars ≈ bb. 54–63

 

1v9–11

four bars = bb. 64–67; to right, pencil: sketch for revision of b. 49

Provenance

 

This sketch may have been one of those mentioned by Bauer-Lechner in connection with the summer of 1901 (NBL2, 195):

Als Zeichen unseren besten Übereinstimmung in dieser Ferien schenkte er mir die Skizzen aller seiner heurigem Lieder.

As a token of our best rapport during this holiday he gave me the sketches of all his recent songs.²

However, neither it nor a separate sketch leaf (S5h) were listed in either of the two inventories of her collection of Mahler manuscripts prepared after her death in 1921.³

The manuscript was purchased in c. 1947–9 from International Autographs (New York) by Mary Flagler Cary (1901–1967); donated in 1968 to the Morgan Library and Museum by the trustees of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.

Facsimiles

  Online colour facsimile; GMIBW, 82

Select Bibliography

  MFCMC, p. 32; GMIBW; SHCoI; SHGoI; SWXIII/4, Sk (dritte Skizze), p. xv; SWXIV/4, Sk (dritte Skizze), p. xv

Notes

 

The rhythmic layout is still frequently in note-values double those of the final version. This draft has one indication of pedalling (1r17–19, b. 10 (= b. 43 in final version)).

   
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