Zweig MS 32

Autograph. Vocal score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Corrections in ink throughout. Tempo direction (at bar 3) ‘Moderato’. Comprising an additional scene, replacing spoken dialogue, headed (f. 1r) ‘No.18 (Nouveau) Scène (G)’, with a note that the first bar replaces the last bar of the preceding piece, no. 17. With at the end the instruction ‘enchainez avec le No. 19’, and initialled and dated ‘Meggen. 25 août 83’ (f.7r). The opera was first performed 14 April 1883 at the Thèatre Nationale de l’Opèra-Comique, Paris. On f. 1r ‘(Nouveau)’ and ‘G’ and the composer’s note at the head of the page have been cancelled in blue crayon, and a replacement note, ‘si l’on adopte la version chantée, pour cette scène ...’ added in another hand in violet ink at the foot of the page. With a few editorial annotations and corrections in pencil as well as blue crayon, and engraver’s markings in pencil throughout; some of the latter are partially erased, but those remaining legible refer to page nos. 236-245. Number in Hinterberger catalogue IX added in pencil at foot of f. 1r.

In the first bar of this scene Frédéric’s spoken ‘il est vivant!’, cued in above the last bars of no. 17 in the first published vocal score, is replaced by his sung ‘Vivant!’. The publication of the scene in full score includes the text of the note by Delibes which has been cancelled on f. 1r of the Zweig manuscript; the heading in the printed full score is also the same as this manuscript: ‘No. 18 (Nouveau) / Scène (G)’. The revised vocal score includes the footnote added to f. 1r of this manuscript as well as the other editorial changes found there. In the printed full score No. 19 begins with the note ‘Pour l’Édition de Gd Opèra voir le nouveau No. 18, Scène G.’