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Zweig MS 6
- Record Id:
- 040-001945753
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001c2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697651.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 6
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for cello and piano, op. 69: sketches for movements III and IV
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil on ff. 1v and 2r. The sketches are mostly on single staves, with piano or ‘cello indicated above at relevant points on ff. 1v, 2r and v. The number 350 added later in pencil at the bottom right of f. 1. For accompanying note of provenance see Zweig MS 7.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945753 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 1-131 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Zweig MS 6 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for cello and piano, op. 69: sketches for movements III and IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0006]/040-001945753
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697651.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1807
- End Date:
- 1808
- Date Range:
- [1807-1808]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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216 x 294mm. Structure: 2. 8-stave paper ruled in pairs for piano score, total span 182mm. Watermark: ‘OA’ = paper type with countermark of a moon with a face (in Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks (Oxford, 1985), un-numbered). Stitching holes to the left margin of both leaves, approx 158mm apart.
- Custodial History:
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Vienna, Aloys Fuchs; Felix Mendelssohn (see Zweig MS 7); date of acquisition for Zweig Collection unknown [Gerd Rosen, Berlin, auction XV, 3 and 4 April, 1951, at which Zweig MS 39 was purchased for the Collection, included a ‘fragment’ of this sonata]; British Library, Loan 77.15 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.15
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); Christie’s, London, then Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Musiksammlung), Vienna, 1987-8 (Creative Spirit in the 19th Century).
- Information About Copies:
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Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_6
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 1v, much reduced, in 1987 exhibition leaflet The Creative Spirit in the Nineteenth Century (London: Christie’s, 1987); Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate VIII.
Bibliography: Alan Tyson, ‘Beethoven’s Home-Made Sketchbook of 1807-8’, Beethoven-Jahrbuch, vol. x (1983), pp. 185-200; Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks (Oxford, 1985), p. 163.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)