Zweig MS 20

Autograph score. Written in black ink, with frequent corrections, on systems of up to six staves. With additional annotations by the composer in pencil and blue crayon, mostly intended for the copyist. The songs are unnumbered, the order in which they are written, relative to the numbers in the first edition of 1888, being 1-7, 10, 11, 8, 9; the final order is indicated by notes in blue crayon at the end of no. 7 and beginning of no. 10 (f. 7r and v). The songs are:

ff. 1r-2r. [1.] ‘He Zigeuner! Greife in die Saiten ein!’. Tempo direction ‘Allegro agitato - piu presto’; incomplete, lacking the last 28 bars, with the marking ‘3a’ at the end of the last system of f. 2r (Brahms’s p.3) indicating that the conclusion was written on an inserted leaf now lost. The setting seems originally to have been in a shorter form, ending on f. 2r; Brahms subsequently struck through the pause marking over his original last bar, added the first five bars of the new ‘piu presto’ ending in the space at the end of the page, and continued it on the inserted leaf.

ff. 2v-3r. [2.] ‘Hochgethürmte Rimafluth, wie bist du so trüb’. ‘Allegro molto’.

ff. 3v-4r. [3.] ‘Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen am allerschönsten ist?’. ‘Allegretto’.

f. 4v. [4.] ‘Lieber Gott, du weisst, wie oft bereut ich hab’. ‘Vivace grazioso’.

f. 5r and v. [5.] ‘Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze sein blauäugig schönes Kind’. ‘Allegro giocoso’.

ff. 5v-6r. [6.] ‘Röslein dreie in der Reihe blühn so roth’. ‘Vivace grazioso’.

ff. 6v-7r. [7.] ‘Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn, mein süsses Lieb’. ‘Andantino grazioso’; at the end (f. 7r) in blue crayon is ‘vide pag. 18’ (f. 9v).

ff. 7v-8r. [10.] ‘Mond verhüllt sein Angesicht’. ‘Andantino’. Between the staves of the first system (f. 7v) is Brahms’s note in blue pencil that the repeats are to be written out.

ff. 8r-9r. [11.] ‘Rothe Abendwolken ziehn am Firmament’. ‘Allegro passionato’.

ff. 9v-10r. [8.] ‘Horch, der Wind klagt in den Zweigen traurig sacht’. ‘Andantino semplice’.

ff. 10v-11v. [9.] ‘Weit und breit schaut Niemand mich an’. ‘Allegro’.

The Stichvorlage for the first edition of 1888 would have been the copy made for Brahms from this manuscript, and discrepancies between it and the printed score can be accounted for by Brahms’s further revisions both on the copy and at proof stage (Rogowoj). The Stichvorlage is now lost.