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Zweig MS 11
- Record Id:
- 040-001945758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026353.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 11
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Three-part canon ‘Kurz ist der Schmerz’ (words Friedrich von Schiller, from Die Jungfrau von Orleans), WoO 166
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink on the recto of a single leaf; staves drawn freehand by Beethoven. The music on five single staves with the text beneath. Dated ‘Wien am / 3ten März / 1815’ at the foot, with the signed dedication ‘Mögten sie doch lieber Spohr / überall, wo sie wahre Kunst und / wahre Künstler finden, gerne / meiner gedenken / ihres / freundes / ludwig wan Beethoven’. A bar in the third voice omitted by Beethoven has been inserted by Spohr. ‘Beethoven’ added in pencil on the verso.
Spohr describes in his Autobiography how Beethoven drew the lines for this album leaf ‘without the aid of a ruler’, and how he himself supplied the notes wanting in the third voice. WoO 163 is a separate three-part canon to the same text composed in 1813.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945758 - 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 11 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Three-part canon ‘Kurz ist der Schmerz’ (words Friedrich von Schiller, from Die Jungfrau von Orleans), WoO 166 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0011]/040-001945758
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100159026353.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1815
- End Date:
- 1815
- Date Range:
- 1815
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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103 x 157mm. Verso blank apart from added name. Unruled paper; all four edges gilt. No watermark. In a blue cloth-covered portfolio, lettered ‘BEETHOVEN’ and ‘S.Z.’ on upper cover, with Zweig MSS 8, 12, 13.
- Custodial History:
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K.E. Henrici, Berlin, auction CXXXII, 27 April 1928, lot. 17 (Das Werk Beethovens); purchased by Zweig from Henrici ‘auserhalb der Auction’, May 1928 (record card, not in Zweig’s hand, Add. MS 73167, f. 6); British Library, Loan 77.18 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.18
- 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_11
- Publications:
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Published: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Werke, XXIII/3 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtl, [1864-7]), pp. 180-2.
Reproduced: Appendix to Spohr, Selbstbiographie, vol. i; K.E. Henrici, Berlin, auction cat. CXXXII (1928), frontispiece (see Das Werk Beethovens); Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XII.
Bibliography: Louis Spohr, Selbstbiographie (Kassel, 1860), vol. i, p. 213, with English translation as Louis Spohr’s Autobiography (London, 1865), pp. 198-9; Georg Kinsky, ed. Hans Halm, Das Werk Beethovens. Thematisch-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner ... Kompositionen (Munich, 1955), p. 674; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), pp. 357-358.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)