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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: Prospero on November 28, 2016, 09:00:37 PM
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The Mengelberg-Kaplan manuscript of the Second Symphony is being sold by Sotheby's tomorrow in London. This is the original of the Kaplan facsimile that most will know of. According to a Sotheby's spokesman today on BBC Radio 3 said the last Mahler symphony manuscript was sold in 1959 and is at Yale. Pre-sale estimates are ₤2,500,000 to ₤3,500,000 (approximately $3,125,000 to $3,375,00). Alma gave it to Mengelberg and Kaplan bought it from the Mengelberg Foundation in, I believe, 1978.
Of course, Mahler made further changes, but the manuscript even in facsimile is very impressive.
Tom in Vermont
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Correction. In the facsimile Kaplan says he bought the manuscript in 1984.
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And the high estimate in dollars should be $4,375,000.
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Reportedly, the final price at the time the auction gavel came down was £4.5 million ($5.6 million). The buyer wanted to remain anonymous. It's speculated that the buyer is a private individual, not a museum, archive, or institution of higher learning. Perhaps more details will become available.
Wade