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1

Keating was a New York businessman and collector who had retired to California, having donated his Conrad Memorial Library to Yale in 1938. See NPCML and The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad.

 

2

See HLGIII, 238 & fn. and RLGPKM, 414–15.

 

Sepia photograph of Editha Moser

 

Fig. 1.

Edytha Moser, c. 1908

 
     
     
     
     
     

 

 

 

 
       

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟
Printed Editions

High Voice (1905)

Medium Voice (1905)

Low Voice (1916–17)

Full scores

Full scores

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Orchestral parts

Orchestral parts

Orchestral parts

Piano-vocal scores

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Piano-vocal scores

     
See also the separate list of collective volumes issued after 1916/17
   
 

This page is work in progress: missing, conjectural or questionable information is printed in red

   
 

PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

PF5h1   FIRST EDITION, F major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1905
       

Title Page: A(o)

       

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper = tp A(o)

       

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=blank

       

Dimensions: 340 x c.265 (r=176)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 15]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

        Text: German only
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4474

 

 

 

 

Print run: 150

       

Copies: D-B Km 22; GB-Lam 152320 (ex coll. Sir Henry Wood with his markings; the UE edition number added on fw); GB-Lbl, I.605.pp.(12.) (red stamp: 28 Feb 98); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting 430a (manuscript mm, p. 2: Graphic representing an unpitched crotchet=60)

        Select bibliography: SWXIV/4, EA II, p. xvi, and p. v.
       

No proofs for this edition have been located, but the (now incomplete) printer's copy prepared by Alma Mahler (ACF5h) survives. That manuscript seems never to have been used for rehearsal or performance and as a result rehearsal numbers were never inserted: this omission was not rectified during the publishing process. The high-voice score was evidently engraved before that of the medium-voice version (originally prepared by Mahler shortly before the first performance on 29 January 1905) as is reflected in the plate numbers of the two editions - so none of the refinements introduced into the latter during the rehearsals are found in the high-voice score. Moreover the two scores were apparently cast-off and engraved by different craftsmen at the firm of Oscar Brandstetter, with the result that their layouts are quite different (as comparison of their paginations and rastral dimension attest).

The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that this was the only printing of the sheets of the F major score in the period 1905–15.

   
PF5h1a    

FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, F major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1912

       

Title Page: A(ou)

       

Wrapper: none present

       

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=blank

       

Dimensions: 340 x 265 (r=177)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p.15]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

        Text: German only
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4474

        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200137 (ex. coll. Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (1868–1949), lacks wrapper)
       

This is a copy of the first impression with a UNIVERSAL-EDITION paste-over covering the original Kahnt imprint. It may have been supplied with either Kahnt wrappers, or new UE wrappers. The UE Verlagsbuch indicates that the score of the high-voice version was assigned the UE edition number 3750a and in the Exemplare column a single copy is recorded with the date 4.x.1912. But see also PF5h1c below.

This copy of the full score and what appears to be an associated set of the first edition of the orchestral parts (PO5h1) both bear the  stamp of Noordewier-Reddingius), and are also rubber-stamped K.N.T.V. This latter addition suggests that the material was at some stage the property of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Toonkunstenaars Vereniging (1875-2015).

   
PF5h1b     FIRST EDITION, later impression, F major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1905, 1916]
       

Title Page: Ab(o)

       

Wrapper: black on grey-green; front wrapper=tp G; back wrapper=Kahnt advert Ab

       

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=blank

       

Dimensions: 332 x 265 (r=177)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 15]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German only
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4474

        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200138
       

The prices of the scores and parts listed on the original title-page have been covered by a blank paste-over. This suggests that the music sheets are either from unused stock of the first impression or from a later impression taken from the unaltered plates; but the wrapper dates from 1915–16, and includes the then current information about the availability and cost of scores and parts for the various transpositions of the songs.

   
PF5h1c     FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, SECOND STATE, F major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1905, 1916]
       

Title Page: Ab(o)

       

Wrapper: black on grey-green; front wrapper=tp G; back wrapper=Kahnt advert Ab

       

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–15=music; [16]=blank

       

Dimensions: 332 x 265 (r=177)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 15]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German only
       

Edition number: 3750a  Plate number: 4474

        Copies: A-Wn MS18636-4° (Pflichtexemplar 895/31; 3750 added in pencil at the foot of the fwr)
       

This copy is made up from sheets of the first issue, enclosed within wrappers probably dating from 1915–16.

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3750a, to the high-voice full score and one copy only is listed next to the date 4.x.1912 in the firm's Verlagsbuch. The A-Wn copy described above has 3750 added in pencil on the front wrapper (the only indication that the copy might have been supplied by UE) but, despite the fact that the title page is that used on the earliest copies, it is unlikely to have been supplied in 1912 since the front wrapper adopts a design that can date from no earlier than 1915 (i.e. the exemplar is a UE issue of PF5h1b). The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders, although the medium-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

   
  PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – high voice
PO5h1   FIRST EDITION, F major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1905
       

Title Page: [none; heading on vl 1, p.1:] „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.‟

       

Make-up of set: 14 parts: ob, ca, cl 1–2 in BGraphic representing a natural sign, bsn 1–2, hn 12 in F, hp, vn 1, vn 2; vla, vcl, db

       

Dimensions: strings, hp: 341 x 271 (r=216 (vn I)); the ww parts are on half sheets: c.166–175 x 271 (r=86½ (ob))

       

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]

       

Printer: none listed

       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4475

 

 

 

 

Print run: 300 [i.e. c. 10–15 sets]

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200139; 2-9200140 (ex coll. Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (1868–1949)); 2-9200141 (ex coll. Jo Vincent (1898–1989))

       

No printer's copy for the printed orchestral parts in F major has been located: either a now unlocated set ([CO5h]) was prepared from AF5h or ACF5h at an early stage in the planning of the first performance, i.e. before Mahler decided to transpose the song to EGraphic representing a natural sign major so that it could be sung by a baritone; or the parts were prepared by the publisher directly from ACF5h. Whatever the sequence of events, the parts accurately reflect the text of AF5h and as a result do not have any rehearsal numbers (see the notes to PF5h1 for a possible explanation.)

The set once owned by Jo Vincent listed above includes vn I and vn II parts from a later impression: see below, PO5h2.

The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that there was only one printing of the parts for the high-voice version in the period 1905–15. The UE Verlagsbuch indicates that the orchestral parts of the high-voice version was assigned the UE edition number 3751. However, the sole dated entry (2.xii.1918) associated with this number appears to been for a low-voice set.

         
PO5h2     FIRST EDITION, later IMPRESSION, F major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt, [1918/19]
       

Title Page: [none; heading on vl 1, p.1:] „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen.‟

        Make-up of set: see the notes below
       

Dimensions: strings, hp: 340 x 271 (r=216 (vn I))

        Watermark: none
        Printer: [vn I, p. 1:] Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig.
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4475

        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200141 (ex coll. Jo Vincent (1898–1989))
       

This impression omits Nachfolger in the imprint, and so dates from 1918/19 or later. No complete set has yet been located: the only known copies are first and second violin parts in the set from the collection of Jo Vincent listed above, so it is uncertain whether the other parts were also reprinted.

         
 

PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORES – high voice

APV5hpr     FIRST EDITION, first proofs – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1905
        Edition number: none   Plate number: 4473
        Copies: US-CSu Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library of Music, MLM 626
       

Provenance: ex coll. Edytha Moser; given by her to her son, Karl Moser, before 1928; acquired by George Thomas Keating (1892–1976), part of the Memorial Library of Music dedicated to the memory of those alumni of Stanford University killed in WWII, that he and his wife presented to the University in the late 1940s.¹

        Select bibliography: NPCML, No. 626; Neues Wiener Journal, 13729 (10 February 1932), p. 6 and 13758 (10 March 1932), p. 15.
       

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 1918.²

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 bears an autograph dedication to her:

Frau Edytha Moser, welche der Welt nur auf kurze Zeit abhanden kommen soll, und hierauf mit ihrem Liebsten wieder zum Vorschein.

Frau Edytha Moser, who will be lost to the world for only a short time, and will return to the fore with her beloved.

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.

     
PV5h1   FIRST EDITION, F major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1905
       

Title Page: A(k)

       

Wrapper: none seen

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert A

       

Dimensions: 340 x c.270 (r=230)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 6]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

        Text: German
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4473

       

Copies: A-Wn MS 67490-4°/8 (Anna von Mildeburg Bequest; no wrappers, no markings); D-B Km 23 (possible exemplar: not examined); NL-DHgm Mengelberg Stichting 430b (manuscript metronome mark, p. 2: Graphic representing a crotchet=60); US-Wc M1614.M214 (copyright date: 7.viii.1905); US-Wc M1621.M.

       

The printer's copy prepared under Mahler's supervision ([CV5h]) has not been located, and editorial annotations of the printer's copy for the medium voice version for voice and piano (ACV5m), suggest that no manuscript in F major was supplied by Mahler.

According to the data collated by Reinhold Kubik (RKGMK, 172), there were four printings of the F major piano-vocal score in the period 1905–1915, a total of 1400 copies.

         
PV5h2     SECOND EDITION, F major, Ger/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1905–09]
       

Hofmeister: no entry

        Text: German and French
        Copies: none located
       

Whether such an edition was issued by Kahnt is not certain, but see the description of the UE issue (PV5h2a) below.

         
PV5h2a     SECOND EDITION, UE issue, F major, Ger/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, [1913?]
       

Title Page: C(ku)

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper=U.E. type A, mauve on green, text in black:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] 2779 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / „ICH BIN DER WELT / ABHANDEN GEKOMMEN‟ / [bottom shield:] HOCH /; [back wrapper=U.E. advert type C (date: X.1910)]

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert B

       

Dimensions: 341 x 270 (r=232)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer:  Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 5]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

        Text: German and French (Traduction française de Mme CAMILLE CHEVILLARD)
       

Edition number: U.E. 2779  Plate number: 4473

        Print ordered: [1.ii.1913?]    Copies received: [2.iv.1913?]   Print run: 100
        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200167; US-NYp *MP box
       

This appears to be one of the first songs in the collection to be provided with a translation, in this case of both the text (French) and the performance instructions (a mixture of French and Italian). The necessary additions appear to have been made to the original plates:

Facsimile of p. 2 of the 1910 UE edition of PV5

Fig. 1:

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟: piano-vocal score, high voice

Second edition, UE issue (1910)

         
        The dating of this UE issue is conjectural: it is not possible to identify an order for it in the UE Verlagsbuch, but that for 100 copies placed in February 1913 might be a possible candidate.
         

PV5h3

 

THIRD EDITION, COMPILATION VOLUME: Meister des Liedes, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1910]

       

Title Page: [see facsimile]  Meister des Liedes / [decorative rule] / Masters of Song · Les Maîtres du Lied / 20 / Ausgewählte Lieder / SELECTED SONGS  MÉLODIES CHOISIES....]

       

Wrapper: [fwr, black text on pink:] [in cartouche] EDITION KAHNT / N  5954 / MEISTER [stylised flower design] / DES LIEDES / · MASTERS OF SONGS · / [segment of musical stave] / [segment of musical stave] ·  Les Maîtres du Lied / [double rule] / Für hohe Stimme.; [fwv, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert C; [bwr, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert F; [bwv, black text on pink:] Kahnt advert D

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–80=music

Facsimile of the contents page of the volume

Fig 1

Contents list from the title page

 

       

Dimensions: 273 x 190 (r=179, p. 54; r=181, p. 58)

       

Watermark: none

       

Printer: none identified

       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: xi.1910

       

Text: German,  English (English words by John Bernhoff) and French (Traduction française de Mme Camille Chevillard)

       

Edition number: 5954  Plate numbers: 5689

       

Copies: A-Wn MS52541-4°

       

This collection of songs, which was available in high- and medium-voice versions, with text in German French and English, was advertised on Kahnt adverts D and G–Gb; „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ appears as no. 14 (pp. 54–7, pl. no. 5689)  and „Liebst du um Schönheit‟ as no. 15 (pp. 58–59, pl. no. 5687) in the high-voice version collection. Clearly the new trilingual versions of the two songs were engraved at about the same time and it is notable that all of the other plate numbers in the volume are in the range 5641–5944, suggesting that the new plates needed for the collection were all prepared in the period from late 1909 to mid-1910.

With the exception of songs by Brahms and Richard Strauss, the copyrights were all owned by Kahnt. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

         
        In the absence of any copies currently identifiable as being exemplars of one of the four batches ordered by UE in 1913–17, it seems possible that, like the fifth  – PV5h3e (1920) – those batches were made up of copies of the third (tri-lingual) edition. The conjectural listing shown below, was prepared from the UE Verlagsbuch.
         
PV5h3a    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, FIRST impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1913

        Print ordered: 1.ii.1913    Copies received: 2.iv.1913   Print run: 100
        Copies: none located [TRY A-Wn MS34809-4°/I,17]
         
PV5h3b    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, SECOND impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914

        Print ordered: 26.ii.1914    Copies received: 9.iii.1914   Print run: 100
        Copies: none located
         
PV5h3c    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, THIRD impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1915

        Print ordered: 21.xii.1914    Copies received: 15.i.1915   Print run: 100
        Copies: none located
         
PV5h3d    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, FOURTH impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1917

        Print ordered: 11.vii.1917    Copies received: 10.x.1917   Print run: 330
        Copies: none located
         
PV5h3e    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, FIFTH impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920

       

Title Page: Ka(u)

       

Wrapper: none present

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=advertisement

       

Dimensions: 330 x c.246 (r=189)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none listed
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff) and French (Traduction française de Mme. Camille Chevillard.)

       

Edition number: 2779a  Plate number: 5689

        Print ordered: 30.viii.1920    Copies received: 25.ix.1920   Print run: 328
       

Copies: GB-Lbl H.1648.l.(3) (green stamp: 30 JUL 64; the tract volume in which this copy is bound bears a bookplate: Presented by Mr Alexis W. Eastwood from the Library of Rena Moisenko).

       

The music text is enclosed within a decorative double border; the plate number is that of the trilingual version prepared in 1910 for the Meister des Liedes volume for high voice (PV5h3). In the copy described the UE edition number is rubber-stamped in violet ink at the foot of the title page, with the suffix letter added in pencil.

     
PV5h3f    

THIRD EDITION, UE issue, SIXTH impression, F major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1924

        Print ordered: 29.ii.1924    Copies received: 14.v.1924   Print run: 336
        Copies: none located
       

The UE Verlagsbuch records that this was the last substantial order the firm placed for this edition: between 1931 and 1936 a further seven small orders were placed for between 11 and 55 copies.

         
 

PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

PF5m1   FIRST EDITION, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1906]
       

Title Page: Aa(o)

       

Wrapper: front wrapper (=tp A); back wrapper=not recorded

       

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

       

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=not recorded)

        Watermark: not recorded
        Printer: not recorded
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

        Text: German
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4559

 

 

 

 

Print run: 150

        Copies: A-Wn MS95107-4° (not examined);  D-B Km 22/1
       

The plate numbers (4559, 4560) of the full score and the orchestral parts for the medium-voice version strongly suggest that they may have been engraved and printed after most of the initial batch of first editions, and, despite the Hofmeister entry, may not have been on sale before early 1906.

When originally printed the title page was type A(o), but subsequently a small printed slip of paper bearing the figures: 2,40 and 3,—. (i.e. the prices of the score and parts of the medium-voice version of the song) was pasted over the word Abschrift (=Aa(o); see also PF5m1a described below).

Apparently, either by accident or design, the title page layout used for the main batch of orchestral scores of the songs issued in the summer of 1905 (A(o)) was re-used when printing the score of the Egraphic image of a flat version of „Ich bin der Welt‟: rather than incurring the costs of re-originating the title page (and possibly the reprinting of the bifolio making up the outer sheet of the gathering) just in order to include the two missing prices, it was decided to adopt the solution found here.

The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that there was only one printing of the Egraphic image of a flat major version in the period 1905–15, with a print run of 150 copies.

     
PF5m1a     FIRST EDITION, later issue, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1906, 1916]
       

Title Page: Aa(o)/Ab(o)

       

Wrapper: front wrapper =tp G; back wrapper=Kahnt advert Ab

       

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

       

Dimensions: 332 x 265 (r=218)

       

Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]

       

Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 9]

       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Text: German

       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4559

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 2 copies, one with annotations, initialled AGS, and stamped Sigtunastiftelsens Bibliothek; see also PO5m1

       

Except for the slightly smaller paper size, the  printed sheets correspond to those of the first impression described above, including the small paste-over on the title page. Subsequently, in 1915/16 following the first price rise, a large blank slip of paper was pasted over the prices of orchestral scores and parts of all the songs on the title page (=Ab(o)). The wrappers use the design of tp G, also introduced in 1915/16.

The Sigtunastiftelsens in Sigtuna, Sweden was founded in 1917 and includes a research library focusing on the humanties.

     
PF5m1b     FIRST EDITION, later issue, Egraphic image of a flat major, – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1916]
       

Title Page: Ab(o)

       

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper = tp G; back wrapper not present

       

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

       

Dimensions: 327 x 255 (r=213)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig [p.  9]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German only
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4559

        Copies: GB-Lbl H. 2665.(6.) (bound copy, lacks back wrapper, with red stamp: 23 MR 1923)
       

This copy appears to be printed on an un-watermarked paper; the gathering is enclosed within wrappers dating from 1915–16. The UE edition number '3750B' (which was actually the number assigned to the high-voice version) has been added in pencil at the top of the front wrapper but there is no other feature linking the copy to UE. The price of the score on the front wrapper has been over-stamped with 42.00, presumably in the period 1920–23.

In fact UE did assign edition numbers to both the score and parts of the medium-voice version, 3742 and 3753 respectively, but no orders are listed in the UE Verlagsbuch and although both were listed in the UE catalogues up to the late 1930s, the numbers were reassigned to the chorus score and parts of an arrangement of Schubert's Deutsche Tanze in 1931.

         
  PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – medium voice
PO5m1   FIRST EDITION, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1905/6]
       

Title Page: none; heading on all parts: „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟

       

Wrapper: none

       

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

       

Dimensions: strings, hp: 340 x 270 (r=216 (vn I)); the ww parts are on half sheets: c.172 x 270 (r=87 (ob ))

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: not identified
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4560

 

 

 

 

Print run: 300 [i.e. c. 10–15 sets]

       

Copies: GB-Lpc 2-92000136 (single vn II, va, vcl and db parts only); unnumbered set initialled AGS (see also PF5m1a above; this includes a manuscript part for Klarinett I in B which, used in conjunction with manuscript additions to the printed cl II part, permits a performance in the absence of a cor anglais).

       

The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that there was only one printing of the parts for the medium-voice version in the period 1905–15. UE assigned edition numbers to both the score and parts of the medium-voice version, 3742 and 3753 respectively, but no order are listed in the UE Verlagsbuch and although both were listed in the UE catalogues up to the late 1930s, the numbers were reassigned to the chorus score and parts of an arrangement of Schubert's Deutsche Tanze in 1931.

         
  PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORE – medium voice
PV5m1   FIRST EDITION, Egraphic image of a flat major – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1905
       

Title Page: A(k)

       

Wrapper: none recorded

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert A

       

Dimensions: 338 x c.270 (r=?)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig. [p. 5]
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: vii.1905

        Text: German
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4480

       

Copies: A-Wn MS 67490-4°/9 (Anna von Mildeburg Bequest; no wrappers, no markings); D-B Km 23/1 (possible exemplar: not examined); GB-Su MS22, xx M 302.M2 (ex coll. Anna Mahler; not yet examined)

       

According to the data collated by Reinhold Kubik (RKGMK, 172), there were four printings of the Egraphic image of a flat major piano-vocal score in the period 1905–1915, a total of 1600 copies.

         
PV5m1a     FIRST EDITION, UE ISSUE, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1910
       

Title Page: C(ku)

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: U.E. type A, violet on green, text in black; upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION · / [small shield:] 2780 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / „ICH BIN DER WELT ABHANDEN GEKOMMEN‟ / [bottom shield:] MITTEL / [back wrapper: U.E. advert dated X.1910]

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=advertisement

       

Dimensions: 339 x 273 (r=232)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG
        Printer: [p. 5:] Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

        Text: German
       

Edition number: U.E. 2780  Plate number: 4480

        Print ordered: 8.x.1910    Copies received: 8.x.1910   Print run: 100
        Copies: US-NYpm Cary 51a
       

It is notable that although the first UE issue of the high-voice version (PF5h1) was printed from new plates, apparently engraved c. 1905–09, that included an English translation, the first medium-voice UE issue is of the German-only first edition (PV5m1). This suggests that a bilingual edition of the Egraphic image of a flat transposition had not been prepared, perhaps because by the time that new copies were needed, plans for trilingual editions of the song (in F and Egraphic image of a flat major) were already afoot (see PV5m2a).

Initially the medium-voice piano and voice score was assigned a separate UE edition number, 2780, but after 1920 orders in the UE Verlagsbuch are listed under the number UE 2779b.

The copy described is kept with the incomplete sketch, S5h, and the complete autograph draft, SS5h1.

I'm most grateful to Frances Barulich, at the time Mary Flagler Cary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music at the The Morgan Library & Museum, for her help in preparing this entry.

         
PV5m2  

SECOND EDITION, COLLECTIVE VOLUME: Meister des Liedes, Egraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1910]

       

Title Page: [Meister des Liedes: 20 Ausgewählte Lieder]

       

Hofmeister: xi.1910

        Text: German, English and French
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: [5690]

        Copies: none located (possible exemplar, not examined: D-B O.45309/10)
       

This collection of songs, which was available in high- and medium-voice versions, was advertised on Kahnt adverts C–Cb, D and G–Gb; „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ appears as no. 14 (pp. 54–7) in the the collection, and „Liebst du um Schönheit‟ as no. 15 (pp. 58–59). Unfortunately no copy of the medium-voice edition has been traced thus far, but it might be conjectured on the basis of the better documented production history of the high-voice edition of the album (see PV5h3), that the trilingual plates of the medium-voice volume were engraved c. 1909–1910.

With the exception of songs by Brahms and Richard Strauss, the copyrights of all the songs in the album were owned by Kahnt. It is not known whether any further impressions of this compilation volume were printed. See also the working paper Mahler's Music in Supplements, Albums and Magazines.

         
PV5m2a    

SECOND EDITION, FIRST or SECOND IMPRESSION, Egraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng/Fr – Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1911–15]

       

Title Page: E

       

Wrapper: none present

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Aa

       

Dimensions: 338 x 270 (r=178)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: not identified
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme Camille Chevillard)

       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 5690

        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9600328
       

The title page of the copy described indicates that this must date from after March 1911. The printed area of pp. 2–5 is enclosed with a double-line, decorative border. See also the notes to PV5m2.

         
PV5m2b    

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, FIRST impression, Egraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng/Fr - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1911

       

Title Page: E(u)

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: U.E. type A, violet on green, text in black; upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION · / [small shield:] 2780 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / „Ich bin der Welt / abhanden gekommen / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield:] MITTEL / [back wrapper: blank]

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Aa

       

Dimensions: 340 x 266 (r=178)

        Watermark: C.F. KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG [runs horizontally across the sheet]
        Printer: not identified
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme Camille Chevillard)

        Print ordered: 1.ix.1911    Copies received: 20.x.1911   Print run: 202
       

Edition number: 2780  Plate number: 5690

        Copies: A-Wue
       

The association of the copy described with this impression is conjectural. The printed area of pp. 2–5 is enclosed with a double-line, decorative border.

This copy has been pasted up as if to prepare a UE-only issue of the song.

     
PV5m2c    

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, third impression, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1912

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: U.E. type A (variant), violet on green, text in black; upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] 2780 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / „Ich bin der Welt / abhanden gekommen / MITTEL / [bottom shield: blank] / [back wrapper:] GUSTAV MAHLER'S WERKE...;  dated Y IV.1912

       

Dimensions: 345 x 273 [wrapper described above]

        Print ordered: 9.iv.1912    Copies received: 30.v.1912   Print run: 203
        Copies: [wrapper only:] GB-Lpc 2-2021013 (signed by (and perhaps from the collection of) V. Münch-Hausmann); A-Wn F117.Riehl.1240 (possible exemplar; not examined) (ex coll. Isolde Riehl)
       

At some point its history this wrapper was erroneously placed around the sheets of PV5t1a. The front wrapper recto is notable for the unusual placing of 'MITTEL' in the main shield, not the bottom shield. The oder information is from the UE Verlagsbuch.

         
PV5m2d    

SECOND EDITION, UE ISSUE, fourth impression, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1914

        Print ordered: 4.iii.1914    Copies received: 18.iii.1914   Print run: 200
        Copies: none located
     
PV5m2e    

SECOND EDITION, UE issue, fIFTH impression, Egraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng/Fr - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1919

       

Title Page: I(u)

       

Wrapper: [front wrapper: U.E. type A, violet on green, text in black; upper shield:] ·UNIVERSAL-EDITION· / [small shield:] 2780 / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / „Ich bin der Welt / abhanden gekommen / GESANG UND KLAVIER / [bottom shield:] MITTEL / [back wrapper: UE advert, undated: see facsimiles]

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ba

       

Dimensions: 331 x 253 (r=184)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none identified
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme Camille Chevillard)

       

Edition number: U.E. 2780  Plate number: 5690

        Print ordered: 3.iv.1919    Copies received: 4.vi.1919   Print run: 330
        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200169
       

The printed area of pp. 2–5 is enclosed with a single-line border. All the performance instructions have been translated into Italian.

     
PV5m2f    

SECOND EDITION, SECOND STATE, UE issue, sIXTH impression, Egraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920

       

Title Page: Kb(u)

       

Wrapper: none present

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ba

       

Dimensions: 333 x 253 (r=184)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: none identified
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

        Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff)
       

Edition number: U.E. 2779b  Plate number: 5690

        Print ordered: 30.xi.1920    Copies received: 26.ix.1920   Print run: 222
        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-9200168
       

It is not possible to firmly associate the copy described above with either of the last two substantial UE orders for copies of the second edition (1920, 1922). However, it is an interesting document, both because the UE edition number overprinted on the title page had not been used for earlier copies of this issue, and because the French translation is omitted, a change that also necessitated modifications to the title details at the head of p. 2 (hence the descriptor 'second state').

         
PV5m2g     SECOND EDITION, UE issue, SEVENTH impression, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1922
        Print ordered: 07.i.1922    Copies received: 15.ix.1922   Print run: 300
        Copies: none located
       

The copy described in the previous entry may in fact be a copy of this issue.

         
PV5m2h     SECOND EDITION, UE issue, EIGHTH impression, Egraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1923
        Print ordered: 23.ii.1923    Copies received: [see below]   Print run: 200
        Copies: none located
       

There is no entry in the delivery column, but other annotations suggest that 100 copies were delivered on 29.iii.1923 split 70H, 30A (the significance of the suffixes is not apparent). The Verlagsbuch records no further orders or deliveries.

         
 

PRINTED FULL SCORES – low voice

PF5t1   FIRST EDITION, Dgraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1916
       

Hofmeister: no entry

        Text: German
       

Edition number: not known  Plate number: 7458

        Copies: none located
       

The transposition was made by Max Puttmann and his manuscript (CF5t) served as the printer's copy; no proofs have been located. The plate number is noted on p. 1 of the manuscript and suggests that the edition dates from spring 1916: transposed scores of „Ich atmet einen Linden Duft‟ (PF4h1: 7451), Um Mitternacht (PV6t1: 7460) and „Liebst du um Schönheit‟ (PF7m1: 7471) were announced in the March and May issues of Hofmeister. The transposition necessitated revisions (mainly transpositions up an octave) in the string parts.

Universal-Edition appears not to have assigned an edition number to the full score or parts of this transposition or ordered any copies, although it continued to be listed in UE catalogues up to the end of the 1930s.

         
PF5t1a     FIRST EDITION, later impression, Dgraphic image of a flat major  - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt, n.d.
       

Title Page: none

       

Wrapper: none present

       

Analysis: [1]=blank; 2–11=music; [12]=blank

       

Dimensions: 356½ x 267 (r=218½)

        Watermark: none
        Printer: Autographie und Druck von C.G. Röder, G.m.b.H., Leipzig.
       

Printing method: dyline from a printed score

        Text: German
       

Edition number: none  Plate number: 5690

        Copies: GB-Lbbc 20438
         
  PRINTED ORCHESTRAL PARTS – low voice
PO5t1   FIRST EDITION, Dgraphic image of a flat major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, [1916]
       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Edition number: not known  Plate number: [7459]

        Copies: none located
       

No copyist's set of parts that might have acted as a printer's copy has been located, and it is not certain that such a set was prepared. The first edition of the parts was presumably prepared and printed at about the same time as the full score.

Universal-Edition appears not to have assigned an edition number to the full score or parts of this transposition or ordered any copies, although it continued to be listed in UE catalogues up to the end of the 1930s.

         
  PRINTED PIANO-VOCAL SCORE – low voice
PV5t1   FIRST EDITION, Dgraphic image of a flat major, Ger/Eng/Fr - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1916
       

Title Page: G

       

Wrapper: see the notes below

       

Analysis: [1]=tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ba

       

Dimensions: 341 x 271 (r=178)

        Watermark: C.F.KAHNT NACHF. LEIPZIG (horizontal)
        Printer: Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig.
       

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

       

Hofmeister: iii.1916

       

Text: German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme. Camille Chevilliard.)

       

Edition number: unknown  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7467

        Copies: GB-Lpc 2-20201013 (kept in a wrapper for PV5m2c.)
       

No printer's copy (possibly prepared by Max Puttmann) ([CV5t]) or proofs for this printed transposition have been located. The music is enclosed on each page within a two-line decorative rectangular border, a design element found in other impressions of Lieder from the collection dating from c. 1916-17. Nevertheless, the sheets described here might be from an exemplar of one of the later impressions listed below.

At some stage in their history the sheets described above were erroneously associated with a UE wrapper for the medium-voice version of the song.

         
PV5t1a     FIRST EDITION, UE issue, first impression, Dgraphic image of a flat major, [Ger/Eng/Fr?]  - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1920
       

Printing method: [Lithographic transfer from engraved plates]

       

Hofmeister: no entry

       

Text: [German, English (English words by John Bernhoff), French (Traduction française de Mme. Camille Chevilliard.)?]

       

Edition number: [U.E. 2779c?]   Plate number: [C.F.K.N. 7467?]

        Print ordered: 30.viii.1920    Copies received: 28.ix.1920   Print run: 218
        Copies: none located
       

Details of the print order are from the UE Verlagsbuch.

       
PV5t1b     FIRST EDITION, UE issue, second impression, Dgraphic image of a flat major, [Ger/Eng/Fr?] - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt / Vienna: Universal-Edition, 1922
       

Edition number: U.E. 2779c  Plate number: [C.F.K.N. 7467?]

        Print ordered: 25.xi.1922    Copies received: 27.xii.1922   Print run: 200
        Copies: none located
       

According to the UE Verlagsbuch no further substantial orders were placed by the firm, though small batches of 50 and 11 copies were ordered in 1931 and 1932 respectively.

         
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