Mahler tenth symphony facsimile (Zsolnay 1924)

[Mobels]

Hi all!

I just wanted to let you know that the Zsolnay 1924 tenth symphony facsimile is for sale on via a New York Antiquarian (http://www.lubranomusic.com/cgi-bin/lubrano/21107.html) since yesterday. I am in no way whatsoever affiliated with this antiquarian - I live in Sweden- but if you're ever going to own a Mahler facsimile, this is THE one to own. The printing quality is one of the best I've ever seen in any facsimile (I own it myself). Alma Mahler once accidentally mixed up the original manuscript sheets with those of the Zsolnay facsimile, and the excellence of the latter necessitated a careful examination of each sheet before it could be set apart from the original. An additional sign of the love and handicraft that went into making this facsimile is the folder cover of the Purgatorio third movement. The lower half was cut off by scissor, most likely by Alma wanting to hide away delicate information (it has been suggested that Mahler wrote bitter accusations here about Alma's infidelity with Walter Gropius), and the Zsolnay facsimile even reproduces the folder cover in half as if cut by a scissor. The later 1967 Ricke facsimile has an in the same place an intact folder cover leaving the cut off section white.

This is my first posting here and I hope there will be many more in the future (since I am a hopelessly fanatic Mahlerian with a special inclination towards - you guessed it - his tenth).

/Bengt R
Uppsala, Sweden

[James Meckley]

Welcome, Uppsala, and thanks for the information.

James

[Prospero]

Thank you for the lead on the 1924 facsimile of the Tenth Symphony.

My first posting also. I, like others here, have followed Mahler with deep interest  for many years. My first hearing of Das Lied was on the 78 set of Walter's 1936 Vienna performance borrowed from the Phoenix, Arizona public library in 1961.

Tom in Vermont