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Title
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[1r, pencil:] 2. Satz [sic] |
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Date |
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[At end, ink: ]
Steinbach / Sontag 16. Juli 93 [the '6' overwrites an
earlier numeral] / [pencil:] 8. Minuten |
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Calligraphy |
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Ink, with ruled pencil barlines,
revisions in pencil and brown ink |
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Paper |
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18 staves, no maker's
mark, upright
format, watermark not recorded, 325–330 x
252 (r = 276)¹ |
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Manuscript structure and collation |
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12 stacked bifolia, with autograph numbering
1–11a, 11b. For details of make-up and collation, use the link
in the left-hand column. |
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Provenance |
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Ex coll. Arnold Rosé;
sold by Seidelsche Sortiments-Buchhandlung / O.E. Deutsch and
Co., on 23 November 1923 (see
NAMR
4 (Feb. 1979), 14);² sold at Sotheby's 21/22 May 1987, lot 440; ex coll. Stephen Barrell.³ |
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Facsimiles |
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Sotheby's catalogue: front cover (colour) =
[15r]; rear cover (colour) and p. 182 (b&w) = [19v];
p. 184 (b&w) = [20v] |
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Select Bibliography |
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Sotheby's Catalogue, 21/22 May 1987;
SWIIb
II, 116: PE-3 |
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Notes |
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Natalie Bauer-Lechner records Mahler's work
on the movement while at Steinbach am Attersee in July-August
1893 (NBL2,
25;
NBLE, p. 29):
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„Sind das zwei wunderschöne Themen, die
ich heute aus der Skizze zum Andante meiner Zweiten
Symphonie aufgegriffen habe, das ich ebenso wie das
Scherzo mit Gottes Hilfe hier zu vollenden hoffe"...
Mahler hatte sein Andante in sieben Tagen vollendet....
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'Here are two marvellous themes' said Mahler 'that I picked up
today from the sketch for the Andante of my Second Symphony.
With God's help, I hope to finish both it and the Scherzo while
I'm here'....Mahler finished his Andante in seven days.... |
The orchestral draft of the Scherzo was completed on 16 July
1893 and that of the Andante (OD2)
on 30 July 1893.
The use of upright-format paper for an orchestral draft is
unusual, but it is notable that Mahler adopted it for
OD2 and the orchestral draft
of the original solo song version of Urlicht, which were
also completed in the summer of 1893. Perhaps that year Mahler
was without a supply of oblong paper at Steinbach.
There appear to be at least two layers of revision: pencil and
ink, in that order (see 15r, where a pencil
revision is clearly deleted in brown ink).
The instrumentation on 1r calls for 3 fl,
2 ob, 2 cl (B ), 2 bsn
(but 3
are used), 4 hn (F), 4 tpt, 3 trb, tuba,
percussion,
timp, (reference to strings omitted). |
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