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Zweig MS 15
- Record Id:
- 040-001945763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001cb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970676.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 15
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried Herder, with brief observations on nature by Beethoven
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The leaves have been folded twice, marking out two or four compartments to which Beethoven has restricted his notes on the last page. Contents as follows:
f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die laute Klage’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Published in Zerstreute Blätter (1792), p. 89. Set by Beethoven for voice and piano (WoO 135); the variant text from the published version of the last line, used in the setting, is also found here.
f. 1r, Herder: ‘Morgengesang der Nachtigall’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Zerstreute Blätter (1792), p. 55. Set by Beethoven for voice and piano (WoO 141).
f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die Perle’. Zerstreute Blätter (1792), p. 91.
f. 1r and v, Herder: ‘Anmuth des Gesanges’. Zerstreute Blätter (1792), pp. 86-7.
f. 1v, Herder: ‘Macht des Gesanges’. Zerstreute Blätter (1792), p. 87.
ff. 1v-2v, Beethoven’s notes on nature and country life. Apparently written first in pencil, and subsequently written over in ink. In a larger, more irregular hand than the copies of the poems.
f. 2v, Fragments of music, marked ‘Andante Vivace’ and apparently in A major; with indications of instrumentation: ‘Corni’, ‘flaut’, ‘clarinetto’, ‘arco’. Written in ink and pencil, on staves drawn freehand. Occupying the upper half of the page, but written with the paper reversed; using the divisions of the paper created by the folds.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945763 - 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 15 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0014]/040-001945763
- 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_100158970676.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1814
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- [1815?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 338 x 213mm. Structure: 2. Watermark: post-horn in a crowned shield, countermark ‘V’.
- Custodial History:
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Artaria collection, Vienna (see Solomon, Beethovens Tagebuch); Joseph Fischof, Vienna (see Frimmel, Beethoven Handbuch, p. 422); Guido Adler, Vienna (by 1927); acquired by Zweig from Erich Carlsohn, March 1931 (Zweig’s record card, which also states the MS was given to Adler by Artaria, Add. MS 73167, f. 8); British Library, Loan 77.20 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.20
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: Vienna, 1927 (Beethoven-Zentenarausstellung).
- 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_15
- Publications:
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Published: Observations on nature (ff. 1v-2v): almost complete text in Ludwig Nohl, Beethovens Brevier (Leipzig, 1870), pp. 102-4 (with the Herder poems), in Albert Leitzmann, Beethovens persönliche Aufzeichnungen (Leipzig, [1918]), p. 19, and, reprinted from the last, in Theodor Frimmel, Beethoven Handbuch, vol. i (Leipzig, 1926, re-issued Hildesheim and Wiesbaden, 1968), p.423; inaccuracies in transcription in these sources are corrected in the partial transcription in Führer durch die Beethoven-Zentenarausstellung der Stadt Wien (Vienna, 1927), p. 110; poems (first five items above), first published in J. G. Herder, Zerstreute Blätter, vierte Sammlung (Gotha, 1792).
Reproduced: ff. 1v-2r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XIV; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 359.
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky, ed. Hans Halm, Das Werk Beethovens. Thematisch-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner ... Kompositionen (Munich, 1955), p. 600; Theodor Frimmel, Beethoven Handbuch, vol. i (Leipzig, 1926, re-issued Hildesheim and Wiesbaden, 1968), p. 422; Maynard Solomon (ed. Sieghard Brandenburg), Beethovens Tagebuch (Mainz and Bonn, 1990), p. 127; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 358.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)