Zweig MS 2

In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of the four sections of the cantata in which the viola plays. A short passage, comprising parts of two bars, cancelled in ink at the foot of the recto. The lower five staves on the verso are blank except for a clef written at the beginning of the first of them. All sections of the cantata are accounted for, as follows:

[1.] ‘Vivace’ (opening chorus), starting on recto and continuing on verso. ‘Volti’ written beneath the last line of the recto, ‘Da Capo’ at the end (line 2 of verso).

[2.] ‘Recit. tacet’.

[3.] ‘Aria sequitur sub signo’ (referring to a supplementary leaf, formerly also in the Zweig Collection), after which is written ‘Recit. seq’.

[4.] ‘Recitat. piano’, occupying 2¼ lines.

[5.] ‘Aria Tenore sol. tacet.’.

[6.] ‘Choral’, 2 lines.

Number in Hinterberger cat. IX added in pencil in lower margin of recto.

The dating of the cantata, to 29 Sept. 1724, is from Dürr. This manuscript and the supplementary leaf containing the viola part for the cantata’s bass aria seem to have been kept together until the Hinterberger sales of manuscripts from Zweig’s collection. Oddly, Zweig MS 2 was offered only in the first catalogue issued by Hinterberger (cat. IX). The supplementary leaf appeared there also, as a separate lot, and was offered again in the following year (cat. 18), when it was bought by Martin Bodmer.