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Zweig MS 9
- Record Id:
- 040-001945756
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161698052.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 9
- Title:
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to retain it; ‘p’ added in pencil on f. 2v. Other annotations by Beethoven include the opening of the text to be spoken while this music is playing, which is interlined on f. 1r, and instructions to the copyists relating to the second bassoon part written below the first system on f. 1v. ‘Beethoven’ added [by Zweig?] in pencil at the foot of f. 1r.
Das Werk Beethovens gives a description of the major part of the full score in Berlin, with Beethoven’s numeration, making it clear that this off-stage music is no. 5, as published, despite the composer’s ‘No 6’ at the head of this manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945756 - 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 9 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0009]/040-001945756
- 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_100161698052.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1806
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- c 1811
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 224 x 280mm. Structure: 2. 10-stave paper, total span 167-8mm. Watermark: upper part of shield with fleur-de-lys, crowned, similar to Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks (Oxford, 1985), paper-type 49.
- Custodial History:
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K.E. Henrici, Berlin, auction no. CXLII, 7 Nov. 1928 (Das Werk Beethovens, p. 327); purchased by Zweig at L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction 59, 20 May 1930, lot 9 (Zweig’s record card, Add MS 73167, f. 4); British Library, Loan 77.19 from 1981 to 1986.
Zweig MSS 9 and 55 were purchased at the same sale.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.19
- 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_9
- Publications:
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Published: Vienna: S.A. Steiner, [1823]; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Werke, XX/2, (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtl, [1864-7]) pp. 59-61.
Reproduced: f. 1r, K.E. Henrici, Berlin, auction cat. CXLII, title-page (see Das Werk Beethovens, p. 327); Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate X.
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky, ed. Hans Halm, Das Werk Beethovens. Thematisch-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner ... Kompositionen (Munich, 1955), p. 327; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), pp. 356-357.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)