Sieben Lieder – title pages

Passe-partout title pages were employed for editions of full scores and vocal scores of individual songs. The variants in content (items listed, prices, other information) offer a broad means of ordering and approximately dating copies, so all are reproduced here in what appears to be a chronological sequence.

Each main type is designated by a capital letter, followed by a lower case letter to identify a variant and where necessary by abbreviations in parentheses:

o = Orchesterausgabe

k = Klavierausgabe

u = UE oveprinting

The title pages used for the collective volumes (with piano and with orchestra) are listed at the end of the sequence.

Working Paper: Title pages of C.F. Kahnt's publications of Mahler's Songs

Individual Songs

Collective volumes

with piano accompaniment

Collective volumes

with orchestral accompaniment

Compilation Volumes

Periodical Supplements

A(o)

June/July 1905

c.f. A(k)
Printed copies of the full score and parts of the medium voice version of „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ were apparently not yet available.

The plate number sequence offers further evidence that their publication was indeed delayed, so presumably manuscript and/or lithographed performing material was only available on hire. See also title pages B(k) and C(k) below.

Facsimile of title page A1 (Orchesterausgabe) of the Lieder published by Kahnt

Exemplars:

Revelge, PF1h1 (1905); PF1h1 (1912); PF1h1 (1919)

Der Tamboursg'sell, PF2m1 (1905); PF2m1 ([1916–17])

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PF3m1 (1905); PF3m1 (1905/1916); PF3m1 (1905/1918)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PF4m1 (1905)

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5h1 (1905); PF5m1 (1906)

Um Mitternacht, PF6m1 (1905)

A(ou)

1912

A type A(o) title page in which a Universal-Edition paste-over (gold printed on black) has been attached over the publisher's imprint.

This copy was presumably from a batch of old A(o) stock supplied to Universal-Edition.

Colour facsimile of the title page of PF5H2 (1912) showing the 'Universal-Edition' slip pasted over the publisher's name

Exemplars:

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5h1 (1912)

A(k)

June/July 1905

c.f. A(o)
The printed editions of the full score and orchestral parts of the low voice version of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' was not yet available. There is evidence they may not have been published until 1906.

Facsimile of title page A1 (Klavierausgabe) of the Lieder published by Kahnt

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1h1 (1905)

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2m1 (1905)

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PV3m1 (1905)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4m1 (1905)

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PV5h1 (1905)

Um Mitternacht, PV6h1 (1905)

Um Mitternacht, PV6m1 (1905)

Aa(o)

[1906]

In the listing for 'Ich bin der Welt' a paste-over with prices for the score and parts – 2,40 3,– . – covers the word 'Abschrift'.

This variant occurs only on copies of the full score of 'Ich bin der Welt': the use of the paste-over was perhaps adopted to avoid the need to revise the existing lithographed title page.

No facsimile available

Exemplars:

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5m1 ([1906])

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5m1 ([1906, 1916])

Ab(o)

1915–

In the listing all the prices for full scores and and parts have been covered by a single blank paste-over.

Although generally many surviving copies of the full scores lack their wrappers, a few copies from 1915–18 (or possible later) with this variant title page have retained theirs: the front wrappers adopt the design of tp G, with details of additional transpositions and higher prices for the scores and parts (the piano-vocal score prices remained at 1905 levels). This suggests that such copies represent the remains of early print runs, that have been updated with new wrappers and the paste-over on the title page. In one recorded exemplar the Kahnt imprint on the title page has also been covered by a Universal-Edition paste-over (see PF5h1a (1912)).

Exemplars:

Revelge, PF1h1b ([1905, 1916])

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PF3m1 (1905/1918)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PF4m1 ([1905/1916])

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5h1 ([1905/1916]); PF5m1 ([1905, 1916]); PF5m1 ([1916])

Um Mitternacht, PF6h1a ([1905/1916]); PF6m1a ([1905/1916])

B(k)

1906–07

• This listing includes the medium voice version of Revelge (first issued c. March 1906) and includes the keys and voice types in the listing of both transpositions.

The printed editions of the full score and orchestral parts of the medium voice version of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' were apparently still not available.

Facsimile of title page B(k): the letterpress listing now includes the C minor transposition of Revelge

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m1 (1906)

B(ku)

1910

• This is identical to Bk, except for IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN which is (over-?)printed at the foot of the page.

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m1 (1910)

C(k)

1907–11?

This listing

includes prices for the full score and parts of the medium voice version of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' (perhaps not issued until 1906)
includes high and medium piano and voice versions of Liebst du um Schönheit (first issued in March 1907), but omits any reference to orchestral material (not published until 1916–17)
includes details of key and voice range for all the formats (N.B. the D minor version of Der Tamboursg'sell is described as 'hoch': c.f. tp G where it is identified as 'mittel')
includes numbering of the songs
omits the identification of the printer.

No interim version(s) of the title page that only incorporate references to the full score and parts of the medium-voice version of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' have been traced.

Facsimile of title page C(k), the earliest located that refers to the piano-vocal score of Liebst du um Schönheit

Exemplars:

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2m1 ([1907–11])

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4m1 (1907–11)

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, PVh1 (1907)

C(ku)

1910–11?

As title page C(k), but with overprinting at the foot of the page to identify it as an U.E. issue: this must date from 1910 or later.

Facsimile of title page C(ku), the letterpress of which includes IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN at the foot of the page

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1h1 (1910)

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2m1 (1910)

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder“ PV3m1a (1910)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft“, PV4m1 (1910–15)

„Ich bin der Welt abkanden gekommen“, PV5h2 (1910)

„Ich bin der Welt abkanden gekommen“, PV5m2 (1910)

D(k)

1907–15

• The medium-voice version of Kindertotenlieder is now listed.

Although from now on the title page design included Kindertotenlieder, this passe-partout title page was never adopted for printed copies of Kindertotenlieder. It must have been prepared between 1907 (after Liebst du um Schönheit was first published) and 1911 (when a radically altered design was prepared (see title page E, below)), but seems to have been used as least as late as 1915 (see the second exemplar listed below).

Facsimile of title page D(k), which includes a reference to the availability of the piano and orchestral versions of the Kindertotenlieder (medium voice), but not to orchestral material for Liebst du um Schönheit

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m1 (1906)

Revelge, PV1h1 ([1915])

D(ku)

1912–

As D(k), but with IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN added below the imprint

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1h1b (1912)

1911–15

The lower part of the page, below the listing of the songs, has been completely revised, including changes to the publisher's logo, copyright statements and the inclusion of a reference to the firm's appointment as Hof-Musikalienhandler to the Dutchy of Anhalt.
The format (full score or piano-vocal score) is not specified.

The reference to the Russian copyright law, dated 20 March 1911, offers a terminus post quem for this variant. It was rendered increasingly out-of-date by the publication of new transpositions from 1915 onwards.

Colour facsimile of title page D, which introduces a number of new elements, including copyright statements.

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m1 ([1911–15])

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PV5m2 (1911–15)

Um Mitternacht, PV6m1b (1911–15)

E(u)

1911–15

IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN added at the foot of the page

A facsimile of title page D(ku), which includes a reference to Universal-Edition at the foot of the page

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m1 (1913)

Um Mitternacht, PV6h1 (1912)

1915–16

The material for the high-voice versions of 'Ich atmet' einen linden Duft' and Kindertotenlieder have been added to the listing.

No facsimile available

Exemplars:

None located (but see title page Fa)

1916

In the listing all the prices for full scores and and parts have been covered by a single blank paste-over.

See the note to Ab(o): the prices of orchestral scores and parts were apparently increased at some time in late 1916, when the paste-over was added to older unsold stock and before the adoption of tp G.

Exemplars:

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PF4h1 (1916)

[1915/16?]

Some individual Rückert settings – except nos 1, 4, 5 and 7 – are listed in three keys.
The prices of the scores and parts have been increased.
NB: the overprinting in the facsimile is not part of the standard design

A low-voice version of Kindertotenlieder was never prepared; no price was given for the score of the high-voice Kindertotenlieder on any of the exemplars of type G listed here.

No example of this variant being used for a title page has been located.

1916–17

All songs except nos 1, 4 and 7 are listed in three keys.
The prices of the scores and parts have been increased.
NB: the overprinting in the facsimile is not part of the standard design

A low-voice version of Kindertotenlieder was never prepared; no price was given for the score of the high-voice Kindertotenlieder on any of the title-pages listed here.

Colour facsimile of title page G, with '5' printed in purple ink over the price of the orchestral scores of Liebst du um Schönheit

As a title page

As a front wrapper (Der Tamboursg'sell, PF2m1 ([1916], fwr)

Exemplars:

Revelge, PF1h1 ([1905, 1916]) [=fwr]

Der Tamboursg'sell, PF2m1 ([1916]) [=fwr]

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PF3m1 (1905, 1916) [=fwr]; PF3m1 ([1905, 1918])

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PF4m1 ([1905/1916]), [=fwr]

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5h1 ([1905, 1916]), [=fwr]

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PF5m1 ([1906, 1916]), [=fwr]

Um Mitternacht, PV6t1 (1916)

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, PFh1 ([1917]); PFt1 (1917), [=fwr and title page]

G(u)

1916–

• As title page G, but with IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN over-printed at the foot of the page.

No facsimile available

Exemplars:

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2h1 (1917)

1916, 1919

The prices of the orchestral scores and parts have been covered with a blank paste-over

The paste-over was presumably applied to unsold stock after the prices of the scores and parts had been raised for the second time, c. 1919.

A facsimile of title page Ga, i.e. tp G with the prices of the orchestral score and parts pasted over with a paper slip.

Exemplars:

Um Mitternacht, PF6t1 ([1916, 1919])

[1917–18]

All songs (both piano and orchestral versions) are listed in three keys.
The copyright date is now given as 1913.

The voice and piano versions of the three transpositions not listed on tp G but included here (i.e. nos 1, 4 & 5) were announced in the January 1917 issue of Hofmeister's Monatsbericht but there were no references to parallel publications for voice and orchestra. Unfortunately Max Puttmann's manuscript of his low-voice orchestration of Revelge is undated.

The retention of the reference to the ducal appointment on title page H suggests that it probably dates from before the collapse of the German Reich and the establishment of the Weimar Republic in November 1918. The significance of the change in copyright date has not been ascertained.

Black and white facsimile of title page H

Exemplars:

Der Tamboursg'sell, PF2t1 (1917)

H(u)

[1917–18]

'In die Universal-Edition Aufgenommen' added at the foot of the page

Colour facsimile of titlepage H(u)

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1t1 (1920);

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2t1 (1917); PF2h1a (1919);

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4m2 (1918); PV4t1 (1921)

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, PF7t 1 (1918-)

c. 1918/19

'Nachfolger' has been deleted from the imprint (but not the copyright statement) and the reference to the ducal appointment and the crest have been removed.

These changes were probably made in the wake of the collapse of the German Reich and the establishment of the Weimar Republic in November 1918.

No facsimile available

(but see I(u) below)

Exemplars:

None located

I(u)

c. 1917–20

'In die Universal-Edition Aufgenommen' added at the foot of the page

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1h1 (1919); PV1h1 (1920)

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2h1 (1920)

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PV3h1 (1917); PV3h1 (1919); PV3m2 (1919); PV3m2 (1920)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4h2 (1918)

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PV5m2 (1919)

Um Mitternacht, PV6m2a ([1919?]); PV6m2a.1 ([1919?])

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, PV7h3 (1920); PV7m3 (1920); PV7h3 (1921);

J(u)

c. 1918/19

The copyright date is again 1905.

The significance of this change, and the precise chronological position of this title-page type is unclear.

Exemplars:

Revelge, PV1m2 (1919); PV1m2 (1921)

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2m2 (1919)

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PV3t1 (1919), PV3h1 (1920),

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4t1 (1918/19)

Um Mitternacht, PV6h2 (1920)

Ja(u)

1918/19–

Two rubber-stamped additions: below the prices of the orchestral material and in the bottom r.h. corner of the page.

The additions were presumably made to existing stock after the prices of the orchestral material were increased: the date of that increase is not established, but in the February/March 1918 Hofmeister's Monatsbericht included for the first time a general note indicating that prices were given as they appeared on publications, and did not include any relevant Teuerungszuschlag (cost-of-living increase).

Exemplars:

Revelge, PF1t1 [1919]

„Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder‟, PV3h1 (1920)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PF4h1 (1918/19)

K(u)

c.1919–

The copyright date is again 1913
The prices of the orchestral scores and parts have been raised for a second time

The precise date of this title-page type is unclear.

Exemplars:

Revelge, PF1h (1919) [=fwr]

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2t1 (1920)

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4h2 (1920)

Um Mitternacht, PV6m2 ([1920?])

„Liebst du um Schönheit‟, PV7t1b (1920)

Ka(u)

c. 1919–

The UE edition number is rubber stamped at the foot of the title page with the suffix letter added in pencil

This appears to be an interim step between K(u) and Kb(u), but the precise date of this title-page type is unclear.

Exemplars:

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PV5h3 (1920)

Kb(u)

c. 1919–

The relevant UE edition number is overprinted on the title page

The precise date of this title-page type is unclear.

Exemplars:

„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟, PV5m2 (1920)

Um Mitternacht, PV6m2 (1920); PV6t2 (1920)

c. 1920–

'Preise freiblebend' added at the foot of the listing (presumably indicating that there was no control over retail prices).

The precise chronological position of this title-page type is unclear, but it presumably dates from a later stage in rise of inflation in Germany during the early 1920s.

Exemplars:

Der Tamboursg'sell, PV2t1 ([1920?])

Sieben Lieder, medium voice, PVcm1 (n.d.) [=fwv]

L(u)

c. 1920–

The U.E. edition number is printed at the foot of the page.

The precise chronological position of this title-page type is unclear, but it presumably dates from a later stage in rise of inflation in Germany during the early 1920s.

N.B. the font of 'Preise freiblebend' is not that of the example of tp L shown above.

Exemplars:

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟ PV4m2 (1920 or 1922)

M(u)

c. 1920–

• The text is almost entirely bi-lingual, in German and English.

• The copyright date is once more 1905

• The pricing structure has been overhauled with both rises and price reductions

• IN DIE UNIVERSAL-EDITION AUFGENOMMEN printed and also repeated in a rubber stamped addition at the foot of the page, which includes the U.E. edition number, with the suffix added in pencil

• The statement Made in Germany is included

The precise chronological position of this title-page type is unclear as is the wider commercial significance of the preparation of a bilingual title page.

Exemplars:

„Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, PV4h2 (1924)

Title Pages - Collective volumes

with piano accompaniment

PVC

Sans serif font used throughout
New collection title (adopted from UE)
Elements that are standard in later versions lacking:
- Listing of the available transpositions
- Omits the statement of the ducal appointment
- Adopts the short form of the publisher's name