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Zweig MS 14
- Record Id:
- 040-001945762
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001ca
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970654.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 14
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number of pages are left blank. One leaf (f. 25) largely torn away.
This little notebook was known to and used by Beethoven’s early biographers. (See Busch-Weise, ‘Beethovens Jugendtagebuch’, p. 69.) Thayer quotes most of the first three pages and discusses many of the later entries.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945762 - 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 14 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0013]/040-001945762
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (27 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970654.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1792
- End Date:
- 1794
- Date Range:
- [1792-1794]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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155 x 94mm. ff. 4r and v, 12v, 13r, 14r-17r, 20r-21r blank; 25 a blank stub. Structure: 6 (including unnumbered front pasted-down fly-leaf), 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 6 (including rear pasted-down fly-leaf, numbered as f. 27). Watermark: arms of Amsterdam on a shield, crowned, with letter A below and with lion supporters, countermark ‘RA’ [?]. Bound in the original blue paper-covered boards, upper cover broken and repaired; in a blue leather box by Baynton of Bath, gold tooled and lettered ‘BEETHOVEN / NOTEBOOK’ on the upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Artaria, Vienna, ‘Das sogenannte ‘Artaria’ tagebuch’ (annotation in Zweig’s hand to record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 7); Eugen von Miller, Vienna; Mrs Mackintosh [?]; E.P. Warren, Lewes House; G.W. Davy, Kingussie, Scotland (Busch-Weise); Sotheby’s, London, 4 June 1929, lot 400; purchased there by Zweig (Add. MS 73167, f. 7).
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); Christie’s, London, then Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and Nationalbibliothek (Musiksammlung), Vienna, 1987-8 (Creative Spirit in the 19th Century); British Library, 1989 (Haydn and England).
- 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_14
- Publications:
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Published: Complete transcript, with introduction and commentary, Dagmar Busch-Weise, ‘Beethovens Jugendtagebuch’, Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, xv, (Graz, 1962), pp. 68-88. Reproduced: f. 5v, Arthur Searle, Haydn and England (London, 1989), p. 17; ff. 9v, 11r, 13v (with transcriptions), Musical Times, 15 Dec. 1892, p. 33; f. 9v (lower part), in Stefan Zweig ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, Philobiblon, vol. iii (Vienna, 1930), p. 290; ff. 12r, 26v (part), in Busch-Weise, ‘Beethovens Jugendtagebuch’, opp. p.80; ff. 5r, 5v-6r, 9v-10r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates XII-XIII.
Bibliography: Musical Times, 15 Dec. 1892, special Beethoven issue, p. 33; Elliot Forbes (ed.), Thayer’s Life of Beethoven (Princeton, NJ, 1967), vol. 1, pp. 116-7, 135ff.; Busch-Weise, ‘Beethovens Jugendtagebuch’ [see Published above]; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 358.
- Exhibitions:
- Beethoven. World. Citizen. Music, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 16 December 2019 - 26 April 2020
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)