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Title
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See below |
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Date |
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Dresden January 1897 |
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Calligraphy |
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Black ink |
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Paper |
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Unruled paper, no
maker's mark, watermark not recorded, 175 x 220 |
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Manuscript
structure and collation |
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1 fol.:
1r=inscription
1v=blank |
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Provenance |
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Ex coll. Winifeld [recte
Winifred?] Ker Seymer;
offered
for sale at Sotheby’s, December 1991, lot 119; bought by Gilbert
E. Kaplan; offered for sale at Sotheby's, 22 May 2018, lot 89. |
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Facsimiles |
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Sotheby's Catalogue, December
1991, lot 119; Sotheby's Catalogue, 22 May 2018, lot 89 |
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Select Bibliography |
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Sotheby's Catalogue, December 1991, lot 119; Sotheby's Catalogue,
22 May 2018, lot 89 |
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Notes |
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This manuscript has not been examined. The musical quotation is
of the first two bars of the third movement of the Second
Symphony. The inscription reads:
Fräulein Winifeld Ker Seymer / [first 2 bars] / Gustav Mahler,
Dresden Januar 1897
The occasion that resulted in this album was
undoubtedly the performance on
15 January 1897 (attended by Mahler) of the second, third
and fourth movements of the Symphony by the Königliche Kapelle,
Dresden under Ernst von Schuch, with Irene Chavanne as soloist.
The recipient was probably Miss Winifred Clay Ker-Seymer
(1868–1951), whose father, Harry Clay Ker-Seymer (1832–1899) was
the brother of Frederick Clay (1838–1889), a well-known English
composer for the stage who collaborated with W.S. Gilbert in
four works. Harry had a career as a diplomat in Washington,
Paris and Berne before retiring in 1869. |
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