The photo on this website’s home page documents a 2017 session of my Music History undergraduate survey at Yale. On that day we met in Yale’s Beinecke Library to display and get hands-on experience with some of the library’s autograph-manuscript treasures: the Mellon Chansonnier, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Mahler, Stravinsky, Puccini, Ravel, and so on. In the photo I’m leafing through the autograph score of Mahler’s First Symphony (Hamburg Version), the only known autograph score of this work–the score that includes the “Blumine” movement.
PHOTO: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2017. Mahler, Symphony No. 1, autograph score. (See blog post 7/18/2021)