Zweig MS 43

Autograph. The last movement incomplete. In short and condensed score. Written in pencil and ink on systems of two to six staves. No tempo directions. In a small notebook, the two movements written from opposite ends of the volume. At some stage Hindemith wrote in titles for both movements, and created a full title-page on an otherwise blank leaf (f. 2r). In doing so it seems likely that he reversed the volume; if so Movement I was written first, and the notes on the present f. 1 would originally have been on the inside back cover. Contents as follows:

f. 1 (pasted-down fly-leaf). Note in pencil of instrumentation, with percussion listed in addition to the scoring found in published edition. ‘Paul Hindemith’ in ink, perhaps in another hand. All written with the page inverted.

f. 2r. Hindemith’s title-page, in ink: ‘Paul Hindemith / Op 36 I / Kammermusik II / (Klavierkonzert) / Originalmanuskript des ersten und letzten Satzes’.

ff. 2v-3r. Cancelled sketches, in pencil in short score on four staves, and in ink on single staves.

ff. 3v-21r. Movement IV [Finale], from the first piano entry to 3 bars before cue letter I in the published score. Written in ink (ff. 3v-6r) and pencil (ff. 6r-21r). Piano part written out in full on two staves, with the accompaniment in condensed score mostly on 3 or 4 additional staves; up to f. 15r the piano solo occupies the top two staves of each system, the bottom two from f. 15v. Cancelled passages: 1 bar (f. 8v), 2 bars (f. 10r-v), 2 bars (f. 12r), and 1 bar (f. 13v); the accompaniment in the 3 bars on f. 20v, and the whole of the following 2 bars on f. 21r, cancelled. Instrumentation marked in ink on ff. 6v-7r. Bar counts sporadically marked in up to 11 bars after cue E, thereafter [beginning of Fugato] a new sequence, given on each page. Title ‘Paul Hindemith Klavierkonzert Op 36 I, letzter Satz’ added in ink at foot of f. 3v.

ff. 21v-22r. Unidentified sketch of 4 bars in score.

ff. 30-22r; written with the volume reversed, f. 30 a pasted-down fly-leaf. Movement I, complete, in short score. In pencil throughout. Piano part written out in full on two staves, accompaniment sketched on a single additional stave. Repeated section bars 49-65 indicated by ‘Solo von Anfang ½ Ton tiefer’ (f. 26v). Cancelled passages: 2 bars (f. 27r), 2 bars (f. 26v), 1 bar (f. 24r). Title ‘Paul Hindemith, Klavierkonzert Op 36, I Satz.’ added in ink in upper margin of f. 30.

Numbers in Hinterberger catalogues IX and XX added in pencil in upper margins of ff. 1 and 2r.