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Alma seems to have been dilatory in releasing Mahler's short scores of all five movements to those who were best able to attempt a completion, probably because of comments inserted by the composer at a time of great personal angst during her dalliance with Gropius. According to Michael Kennedy, for the 1924 performance of the Adagio and Purgatorio GM's short scores were edited by Krenek with some help from Alban Berg & possibly others (Alma & Zemlinsky ?). In 1940 Shostakovich was approached to attempt a completion, presumably by Alma or an emissary, but refused, as did Schoenberg in 1949..
Like you, Pulcie, I've never heard Britten's name mentioned in connection with a completion of GM10, but of course he was in New York in 1940, and knew Alma, to whom he dedicated his Nocturne some years later.
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