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Zweig MS 33
- Record Id:
- 040-001945782
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001dd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970993.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 33
- Title:
- Gaetano Donizetti: early version of the overture to Il diluvio universale, in D major/minor, in a version for piano duet
- Scope & Content:
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Incomplete, 270 bars; the last page (f. 4v), though completely full, does not contain the conclusion of the work. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘Larghetto - Allegro’. The name Donizetti added in lighter ink in the upper margin of f. 1r. ‘N 3’ added in pencil at top right of f. 1r.
The opening Larghetto section corresponds to the opening of the overture to the original 1830 version of the opera Il diluvio universale. This material was reused later in the same year in Anna Bolena, and a new opening was substituted when Il diluvio universale was revised in 1834. The Allegro section, incomplete in this manuscript, remained in the 1834 version. The present manuscript may be either a piano duet arrangement of the 1830 overture or a separate piece closely related to the overture. Stefan Zweig had considered the music to be an unrecorded piece for string quartet.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945782 - 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 33 : Gaetano Donizetti: early version of the overture to Il diluvio universale, in D major/minor, in a version for piano duet - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0031]/040-001945782
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970993.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1829
- End Date:
- 1830
- Date Range:
- [1830?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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231 x 291mm. Structure: 4. 20-stave paper, span 199mm. Watermark: three fleurs de lys within a decorated double circle, with under it ‘D. Carm. Baccari’. Sewn.
- Custodial History:
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Acquired by Zweig from Francesco Torrini, Milan, July 1938 (copy of record card, Add. MS 73169, f. 23, and Add. MS 73171, ff. 95-96).
- 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_33
- Publications:
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Reproduced: ff. 1r, 4v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates XXXI-XXXII.
Bibliography: Christopher Scobie, 'A Donizetti Manuscript in the Zweig Collection', Electronic British Library Journal 2014, article 12; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 367.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)