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Zweig MS 36
- Record Id:
- 040-001945785
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 36
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authenticity. With a modern calligraphic title-page (f. i) in black and red inks, including an English verse translation of the words.
This manuscript was not known to Chrysander, so only the first part of the cantata appears in his edition. Burrows and Ronish point out that Novello’s annotations on f. 1 do not necessarily indicate that he was the owner of the manuscript after Dragonetti’s death.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945785 - 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 36 : George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0034]/040-001945785
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_36 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1749
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 241 x 295mm. f. 2v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2. 10-stave paper, ruled in pairs with a span of 27.5-28mm. (see Burrows and Ronish); total span ranges between 186-189mm. Watermark: Burrows and Ronish C20. Tipped onto a recessed board and bound in full brown leather, gold tooled, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, the upper cover lettered ‘AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT / A LOVE SONG / GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL’ [sic].
- Custodial History:
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Domenico Dragonetti (d. 1846); Vincent Novello [?]; W.H. Cummings; Cummings sale, Sotheby’s, 17-24 May 1917, lot 132; Maggs Bros, cat. 362, Christmas 1917, item 2674; William Clark; W.H. Rothwell, Los Angeles; 1938, Paul Gottschalk, from whom it was purchased for Zweig (see Burrows and Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs); purchased by Zweig through H. Eisemann, London, 28 July 1938 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 19, and Add. MS 73171, ff. 102-5).
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: Munich, Stadtbibliothek am Gasteig, 1993 (Die Zeit gibt die Bilder).
- 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_36
- Publications:
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Published: As ‘La Bella Pastorella’, edited and arranged ‘From Original M.S.’ by W.H. Cummings, London: C. Lonsdale, Gemme d’Antichità, no. 237, [circa 1877].
Reproduced: f. 1r. (excluding Novello’s annotations) in Maggs Bros. cat. 362, 1917, pl. v; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate XXXVI.
Bibliography: Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford, 1994), p. 300; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), pp. 369-70.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)