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Zweig MS 18
- Record Id:
- 040-001945766
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001ce
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970700.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 18
- Title:
- Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14 November 1796
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink; on paper with legal stamps, showing the seal of Charles IV and the year, at the top of ff. 1r and 2v. As follows:
f. 1r and v. Thematic catalogne, headed ‘Catalogo delle opere da me Luigi Boccherini cedute in tutta Proprietá al Sig[no]r Ignazio Pleyel’ (f. 1r), with, at the end, ‘Sono in tutto Cinquanta otto pezze. Luigi Boccherini. mano propria.’ (f. 1v). The incipits comprise a few bars only on a single stave, with the opening tempo direction. The works concerned, composed 1792-6, are: six ‘quartettini’, op. 44; four quintets, op. 45, with a symphony for large orchestra in D minor, also apparently part of op. 45; six quintets, op. 46; six ‘terzettini’, op. 47; six ‘quartettini’, op. 48; five quintets, op. 49; six ‘quintettini’, op 50; two quintets, op. 51; four quartets, op. 52; six ‘quartettini’, op. 53; six trios, op. 54. Each opus is described as ‘opera piccola’ or ‘opera grande’.
f. 2r. MS annotation at bottom right corner in pencil: ‘M. Norblin’, most likely referring to the cellist Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin (1781-1854).
f. 2v. Certificate. Signed by, and apparently in the hand of Antonio Martinez Llorente, royal notary, with the signatures of Josef Nerini and Manuel Canseco as witnesses.
The number 17 (from the Cherubini sale) in black ink, and the name Boccherini in red ink, have been added at the top left of f. 1.
Boccherini’s letters from the Pleyel archive dealing with negotiations for the sale of works in 1796-7 are printed in Rothschild. The letter of 15 December 1796 (Rothschild, pp. 112-113) includes a translation of the notarial certificate in the present manuscript and makes it clear that although the document is dated 14 November, that being ‘when the business was settled’, it was drawn up retrospectively in December.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945766 - 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 18 : Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0017]/040-001945766
- 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_100158970700.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1796
- End Date:
- 1796
- Date Range:
- 14 Nov 1796
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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310 x 218mm. f. 2r blank. Structure: 2. Ruled with staves grouped in threes: 15 staves on f. 1r, span 229mm.; 18 staves on f. 1v, span 278mm. Watermark: cross on a shield, ‘VELLARES’ beneath. Old mount, with printed extract from sale catalogue of Cherubini collection attached and with number in Hinterberger cat. IX added in pencil, is now Add. MS 73171, f. 75.
- Custodial History:
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Formerly in the possession of the publisher Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, and then possibly also of the cellist Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin; Cherubini collection, item 17 in Catalogue de la Collection Cherubini (Paris, 1878): ‘Boccherini. Catalogue de ces ouvrages. (Année 1796.)’; Speyer collection; [presumably acquired by Zweig 1934 or 1935]; offered for sale by Zweig through Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, catalogues IX [1936] no. 240, 18 [1937] no. 20, and XX [1937] no. 49; unsold and retained in the collection; British Library, Loan 77.51 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.51
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: London, Nov. 1934 (Sunday Times Book Exhibition); British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs).
- 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_18
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 1r, H. Hinterberger, Vienna, cats. IX [1936] (pl. xlviii) and XX [1937] (pl. iv); Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XVIII.
Bibliography. Arnaldo Bonaventura, Boccherini (Milan, 1931); Germaine de Rothschild, Luigi Boccherini. His Life and Work (London, 1965), pp. 99-127; Yves Gérard, Thematic, Bibliographical and Critical Catalogue of the Works of Luigi Boccherini (London, 1969), p. 684; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 363.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)