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 A facsimile edition of Mahler’s much-loved song Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (‘I am lost to the world’), complete with historical background, has been published by Gilbert Kaplan, who purchased the score in 2004. 

Written in 1901, to a poem by Friedrich Rückert, the autograph score has now joined that of Mahler's Second Symphony in Gilbert Kaplan's collection; both scores are currently on deposit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. 

A rich amount of historical material surrounding the song and its composition exists, something the new 92-page edition seeks to reflect. As well as the orchestral manuscript, it also includes the piano version, preliminary sketches and pages from a copy Alma Mahler made for the printer. There is also a discography listing 155 recordings of the song, an essay exploring Mahler's six performances of the work, and a CD of two recordings sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (an orchestra version with the Berlin Philharmonic and Karl Böhm, and a piano version with Leonard Bernstein). The edition is available from Old Manuscripts & Incunabula, New York, priced $100.