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Zweig MS 27
- Record Id:
- 040-001945776
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970875.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 27
- Title:
- Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major for piano, op. 60
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto’. Headed by the composer ‘Barcarolle / pour le piano / dedié a Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen / par F Chopin. Op. 60 / Leipsic Haertel. Paris Brandus (Schl.) - Londres Wessel.’ (f. 1r); ‘fine’ at end (f. 4r). With a small number of corrections, in ink. With engraver’s markings in pencil, some partially erased. The numbers ‘6’ in pink crayon and ‘7545’ in pencil added at top left of f. 1r.
This manuscript was used in the preparation of the first edition issued by Breitkopf & Härtel: the engraver’s markings agree with the line and page endings, and the number 7545 pencilled on f. 1 is the plate number in this edition. The Kraków manuscript, from which the Paris first edition was prepared, is much more heavily corrected than Zweig MS 27 and was presumably written out first. The apparent discrepancy between Zweig’s account of the provenance of Zweig MS 27 and Kobylańska’s statement that it was used by Brahms in 1880 may perhaps be explained by its having been acquired by Clara for the Schumann album at a later date. Zweig MS 3 was another of Zweig’s acquisitions from the same album.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945776 - 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 27 : Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major for piano, op. 60 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0025]/040-001945776
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970875.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- [1846]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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219 x 285mm. f. 4v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2, 2. 14-stave paper; span 181-2mm. No watermark. Sewn.
- Custodial History:
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Sent by Chopin to A. Franchomme, Paris, for transmission to Breitkopf & Härtel, Aug. 1846; lent by Breitkopf to Brahms, 1880 (see Kobylańska, pp. 130-1); acquired by Zweig from Robert Schumann’s grandson, Robert Sommerhoff, 2 March 1932, formerly part of the album compiled jointly by Robert and Clara Schumann, as Zweig MS 3 (Zweig’s provenance card, Add. MS 73167, f. 15); British Library, Loan 77.3 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.3
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Manuscripts).
- 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_27
- Publications:
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Published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel: 1846; Ernst Herttrich (ed.), Chopin. Klavierstücke (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1978); Paris: Brandus & Cie, and London: Chr. Wessel, both 1846.
Reproduced: f. 4r (part), British Library exhibition leaflet 75 Musical and Literary Autographs (1986), p. 5; ff. 3v-4r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XXIV.
Bibliography: Zweig, The World of Yesterday (London, 1943), p. 266; Maurice J.E. Brown, Chopin. An Index of his Works in Chronological Order (London, 1960), pp. 152-3; Krystina Kobylańska, Frédéric Chopin. Thematisch-Biblioghraphisches Werkverzeichnis (Munich, 1979), pp. 130-1; Ernst Hettrich (ed.), Chopin. Klavierstücke (see above), Kritischer Bericht, pp. 6-8; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p.365. For facsimile of the autograph manuscript in Kraków, see Fryderyk Chopin. Barkarola, Gesamtfaksimile, vol. iv (Krakow: PWM, 1953).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)