Wolf, Hugo.

consisting of an extended, unpublished version of the well-known song, scored for SATB chorus and solo soprano and tenor, notated in brown ink on up to four systems of varying length per page, some autograph pencil markings, a few minor autograph corrections, 2 pages, folio (33 x 25.5cm), 14-stave paper, later manuscript annotations by Rudolf Weinwurm, no place or date, [c.1882?], light browning and a few tiny tears to edges, small damp-stain to lower margin

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An unpublished, undated arrangement for SATB chorus and solo soprano and tenor of the song 'Wohin mit der Freud', a setting of a poem by Robert Reinick composed on New Year's Eve 1882/83.

Wolf's composition differs strikingly from the original solo voice setting: to this he adds an SATB choir and makes use of two solo voices, a soprano and tenor. In its structure, it follows that of the song (omitting, however, the final postlude and with the unnotated bars 1-11, 21-31 and 41-51 indicated simply by the number "11") with one major difference: the extension of the third verse by an eight-bar statement of the new material, now sung by solo soprano and tenor

An autograph score of the song, as well as a leaf of sketches for it, are preserved in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Mus.Hs.19579. Mus A/Wolf/80; Mus. Hs. 19540 [dated '31. Dezemb. 82']). Formerly belonging to Bruckner's friend and supporter Rudolf Weinwurm. A manuscript note in Weinwurm's hand on the verso of the autograph details the path of transmission of the autograph from Adelbert von Goldschmidt to Theodore Leeb and then to Weinwurm himself. See Hugo Wolf. Sämtliche Werke, 7/2, (Vienna, 1969), pp.100-102, and 19/1, 1. Teil (Vienna, 1992), pp.194-5.