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Zweig MS 26
- Record Id:
- 040-001945775
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001d6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970869.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 26
- Title:
- Frédèric Chopin: Mazurka in F sharp minor for piano, op. 59, no. 3
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Vivace’. Headed ‘Nro 3.’ in upper margin of f. 1r; ‘fine’ written at the end (f. 2r). With many autograph corrections and alterations in ink. Engraver’s markings have been added in pencil beneath the systems.
The line and page endings marked by the engraver in this manuscript are not those of the Stern edition, though the first and last page numbers given, 12-15, are those found there. Von Bülow’s letter of 1864 (Zweig MS 24) documents the separation of Zweig MS 26 from the manuscripts of the other two mazurkas of op. 59, all three originally having been sent as a set to the publisher Stern in Berlin. Nos. 1 and 2 from the Stern set are now in Mainz; no other manuscripts of op. 59 are now known apart from the early version in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. However, letters of Chopin suggest that there were once two other sets of autographs: with his letter to Augusts Léo of 9 Oct. 1845 he appears also to have sent copies for transmission to Wessel in London (see Kobylańska, p. 127), and on 9 November 1845 he wrote from Nohant to Schlesinger in Paris, forwarding the same works ‘a publier sans dedicace’ (letter offered for sale by Autographes Castaing, Librairie de l’Echiqiuer, Paris, undated catalogue [June 1987]).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945775 - 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 26 : Frédèric Chopin: Mazurka in F sharp minor for piano, op. 59, no. 3 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0024]/040-001945775
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970869.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1845
- End Date:
- 1845
- Date Range:
- [1845]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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219 x 285mm. f. 2v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2. 14-stave paper; span 181-2mm. No watermark.
- Custodial History:
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Sent by Chopin, with op. 59 nos. 1 and 2, to Auguste Léo, 9 Oct. 1845; from Léo to the Berlin publisher Stern; given by Julius Stern to Hans von Bülow (see Kobylańska, below); no. 3 only given by von Bülow to C. Kerfack, Berlin, 1864 (see Zweig MS 24); Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne; acquired by Zweig at or after the 1926-7 Berlin auction sales from the Heyer Collection; offered for sale through Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, cat. XX [1937], no. 90a; not sold, retained in the collection (see Add. MS 73169, f. 18); British Library, Loan 77.2 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.2
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: Christie’s, London, then Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Oestereichische Nationalbibliotek, Vienna, 1987-8 (Creative Spirit in the 19th Century); British Library, 1989 (Stefan Zweig Series exhibition).
- 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_26
- Publications:
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Published: Ewald Zimmerman (ed.), Chopin Mazurken (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1975).
Reproduced: f. 1r: Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, cat. XX [1937], pl. V; Music Arthur Searle, Music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1987), p. 44; exhibition leaflet ‘The Creative Spirit in the Nineteenth Century’ (London, Amsterdam and Vienna: Christie’s, 1987-8); ff. 1v, 2r: British Library Zweig Concert Series programme book, London, Wigmore Hall, 24 May 1989, pp. 8-9; f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XXIII. Facsimile edition, with a source commentary by Jim Samson, Dzieła Chopina Wydanie faksymilowe, A/IV/59/3a (Warsaw: Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 2009).
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky (ed.), Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln. Katalog, vol iv (Cologne, 1916), p. 370; ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, in Martin Bircher (ed.), Stefan Zweig’s Welt der Autographen (Zurich, 1996), p. 37; Maurice J.E. Brown, Chopin. An Index of his Works in Chronological Order (London, 1960), pp. 151-2; Krystina Kobylańska, Frédéric Chopin. Thematisch-Biblioghraphisches Werkverzeichnis (Munich, 1979), pp. 127-9; Zimmerman (ed.), Chopin. Mazurken (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1975), Kritischer Bericht, p. 9; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p.365.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)