The Music of Gustav Mahler: a Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Sources
This catalogue will list and describe all surviving manuscript sources and will offer full bibliographic descriptions of the early printed sources of Mahler's music (i.e. all those that published during the composer’s lifetime, and first or other important editions that appeared after his death). This information will be accompanied by lists of performances during Mahler’s lifetime, brief details of historically significant recordings and supplementary essays.
The aims of this project are to
•provide physical descriptions of the sources of Mahler's music and their present locations
•trace their history and interconnections. It also
•include entries for 'lost' sources, some of which we know must have existed but have never come to public view and others that have had a brief public profile (often in auction or dealers' catalogues), but whose present location is unknown. An awareness of such sources is essential for an understanding of Mahler's working methods and the evaluation and interpretation of the sources that do survive and are accessible.
The Catalogue does not seek to offer a detailed account of the creative processes of which these sources are the main, yet tantalisingly imperfect witnesses: that is another complex task.
The Project is ongoing: the entries for the First and Second Symphonies and some associated works are available online, and work is continuing on the entries for the remaining works. The supplementary materials include essays on Mahler's dealings with his publishers.
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Paul Banks, ‘Mahler and Music Publishing in Vienna, 1878-1903’ in Music and the Book Trade, ed. Robin Myers et al.(New Castle/London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2008), 179-98.
Paul Banks, ‘The Fall and Rise of Viennese Music Publishing 1860-1914’(John Bird Lecture, University of Cardiff, 2007).
Paul Banks, ‘Mahler’s Marked Scores in the New York Philharmonic Archives’ in Mahler in New York (New York: New Philharmonic Orchestra, 1998), 140-55. [Booklet accompanying a limited edition CD set]
Paul Banks, ‘The Publication of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony’ in New Sounds, New Century: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ed. Donald Mitchell (Bussum: Thoth,1997), 64–8.
Paul Banks, ‘Mahler and the Ethics of Completing Unfinished Works of Art’, in Fragment or Completion?: Proceedings of the Mahler X Symposium Utrecht 1986 (The Hague: Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1991), 9–16.
Paul Banks, ‘Aspects of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony: Performance Practice and Interpretation’, The Musical Times, cxxx/1755 (May 1989), 258–265.
Paul Banks, ‘Mahler’s “Totenfeier”: a Symphonic Poem?’, The Musical Times, cxix/1750(December 1988), 662–3.
Paul Banks, ‘Mahler Manuscripts come to Light’, News about Mahler Research, 18(October 1987), 3–5.
Paul Banks, ‘Mahler 2: some answers?’, The Musical Times, cxxviii/1730 (April 1987), 203–6.
Paul Banks, ‘Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony: from autograph to printed score’ (Fifth Conference on Nineteenth Century Music, Birmingham, 1986).