Piano Quartet, A minor

Autograph score - detailed description

Fascicle Structure

1

Foliation is editorial; all the rehearsal letters are added in pencil.
Colour facsimile of the score: US-NYpm

2
The ink pagination is autograph i

3

In the second and third systems on the page Mahler erroneously wrote the the piano part on the third and fourth staves, and so had to write the cello part on the fifth stave. In both cases he signalled this error with 'N.B.' written in pencil in the l.h. margin.

4

'Mit Dämpfer' added in pencil to vla (b. 139/140), vn (b. 141).

5

'Ohne Dä[mpfer]' added in pencil to vln (b. 139/140) and 'Ohne Dämpfer' to vla (b. 141). 'Ritenuto' (b. 149) appears only in the piano part. 'Mit Dämpfer' added in pencil to vn (b. 159), vla (b. 150).

6
The piano part is very sketchily indicated, in part with the use of figured bass.

7

In the performance instruction over the vln part, b. 218–19, the initial word ('ungemein') has been crossed through in pencil.

8

'Morendo' (b. 229) is a pencil addition.

9

Neither of the scholarly editions (PR1973, SWSBIII) transcribe the passage bb. 26.2–33 completely. PR1973 describes the notation (pencil) as unreadable. It is indeed faint, but clearly visible in the online facsimile of the page provided by US-NYpm.

Fol.¹	Sig. Nos.	Paper Type	Page Nos²	Notes
1r	1 = fwr	A		[Wrapper; Alma Mahler, pencil:] frühe Compositionen / [purple? ink]: Clavier-Quartett 1. Satz / 1876 / von Gustav Mahler
1v	1= fwv			Blank
2r	2 = tp	B		[Original title page; top lh corner, non-autograph, pencil:] M 23/4 / [non-autograph, red pencil] Clavierquartett / von [lead pencil:] 1. Satz / [red pencil:] Gustav Mahler / [lead pencil:] 1876 [doodle] / [staves 15/16, centre, oval stamp, purple? ink:] · TH. RÄTTIG · / WIEN / 1. Maximillianstrasse 3
2v	2 = tpv			Blank
3r	[Music begins]	B	1	[Black ink, with revisions and doodles in pencil:] 3r1–15 = bb. 1–22; 3r16 = blank
3v			2	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil:] 3v1–15 = bb. 23–42; 3v16 = blank
4r		B	3	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil:] 4r1–15 = bb. 43–57; 4r16 = blank; Fig. C at b. 54
4v			4	[Black ink:] 4v1–15 = bb. 58–71; 4v16 = blank
5r		B	5	[Black ink:] 5r1–15 = bb. 72–86; 5r16 = blank
5v			6	[Black ink:] 5v1–15 = bb. 87–95; 5v16 = blank; Fig. D at b. 92
6r		B	7	[Black ink:] 6r1–15 = bb. 96–105; 6r16 = blank; Fig. E at b. 98, Fig. F at b. 102
6v			8³	[Black ink:] 6v1–15 = bb. 106–113, beat 2; 6v16 = blank
7r		B	9	[Black ink:] 7r1–15 = bb. 113, beat 3–122; 7r16 = blank
7v			10	[Black ink:] 7v1–15 = bb. 123–132; 7v16 = blank
8r		B	11⁴	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil:] 8r1–15 = bb. 133–144, beat 2; 7v16 = blank; Fig. G at b. 139
8v			12⁵	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil:] 8v1–15 = bb. 144, beat 3–162; 7v16 = blank;
9r		B	13	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil:] 9r1–15 = bb. 163–176; 7v16 = blank; Fig. H. at b. 164; Fig. J at b. 174
9v		B	14	[Black ink:] 9v1–15 = bb. 177–189; 9v16 = blank; Fig. K. at b. 183
10r		B	15	[Black ink:] 10r1–15 = bb. 190–201; 10r16 = blank; Fig. L at b. 202
10v		B	16⁶	[Black ink:] 10v1–15 = bb. 202–215; 10v16 = blank; Fig. M at b. 216
11r		B	17⁷	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil and ink:] 11r1–15 = bb. 216–226; 11r16 = blank; Fig. N at b. 223
11v		B	18⁸	[Black ink, with revisions in pencil and ink:] 11v1–15 = bb. 227–234; 11r16 = blank
12r	2 = bwr	B	19	[Pencil: G minor scherzo:] 12r1–5 = bb. 1–5; 12r6–9 = bb. 6–11.1; 12r10–13 = bb. 11.2–17; 12r14–16 = bb. 18–24 [b. 24 deleted in black ink]
12v	2 = bwv	B	20⁹	[Pencil: G minor scherzo:] [Black ink:] 12v1–2 = b. 24 (revised version); bb. 25–26.1 = incompletely notated continuation; [pencil:] bb. 26.2–31; 12v3–4 = bb. 32–33; 12v5–8 = [non-autograph] notation of a diatonic line (C major) of no fixed metre, with doodles in pencil and black ink; 12v9–16 = blank
13r	1 = bwr	A	21	Blank
13v	1 = bwv	A	22	Blank

The overall manuscript structure can be summarised: Fol. 1/13 = wrapper 1(outer), consisting of a single bifolio of type A paper Fol. 2/12 = wrapper 2(inner), consisting of a single bifolio of type B paper Fol. 3-11 are now all single sheets, of type B paper stitched to the wrappers