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Symphony No. 2

Sketch, first movement – S1.2

 

A-Wst MHc-14683

 

 

 

 

1

The first bar numbers refers to Totenfeier (as published in SWSupp1), and the second to those of the corresponding passage in the final version of the first movement of the Symphony (NKGII.1).

 

2

If this figure is a bar number, it relates to a rather shorter conception of the first movement.

 

3

The bar numbers in Totenfeier and the final version correspond in this passage.

 

 

 

Title

  None

Date

  [1888]

Calligraphy

  Staves 1–2: ink; staves 4–9: pencil

Paper

  12 staves, no maker's mark, no watermark, upright format, 331 x 238 (r=274)

Manuscript structure and collation

 

1 fol.:

 

1r1–2

bb. 447–52/421–6,¹  with the autograph ink heading 300²

1r3

blank

1r4–9

bb. 97–114,³ preceded by an early version of bb. 89–96

1r10–12  

blank

1v

blank

Provenance

  Purchased from Hans Moldenhauer in 1980

Facsimiles

  Online colour facsimile

Select Bibliography

  SHMMT, passim, including a transcription: II, 21; MHPS, 615

Notes

 

The small tears around the edges of the leaf have been stabilised and supported by the application of glued-on strips on the verso. There are two pencil annotations, probably by Hans Moldenhauer:

1r, bottom l.h. margin

2nd Symph - I coda

1v, on the top paste-over support   

MAHLER. Sketches for Coda of 1st Movement of 2nd Symphony

The provenance information was kindly provided by Thomas Aigner (A-Wst).

   
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