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Zweig MS 39
- Record Id:
- 040-001945788
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001f3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 39
- Title:
- Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows:
ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. 1v) headed ‘In Nomine Domine’; ‘Laus Deo’ written at the end (f. 13r).
ff. 15r-25r. ‘Adagio ma non troppo.’ (f. 15r). A five-bar passage, bars 36-40, is written on the recto of a single inserted leaf (f. 17), the insertion marked with signs on ff. 16v and 18r.
ff. 26r-30v. ‘Menuet’ ‘Allegretto’ (f. 26r) and ‘Trio’ (f. 28v). Above the first violin line at bar 108 in the Trio is written ‘in 8va Salomon Solo ma piano’ (f. 30r).
ff. 32r-42v. ‘Finale’ ‘Spiritoso’ (f. 32r). ‘Fine Laus Deo’ written at the end of the work (f. 42v).
The composer’s total of bar numbers is given at the end of each movement (including both Minuet and Trio). Some numbering of bars has been added in pencil by a copyist in part of movements I and IV.
Bound in at the front (f. ii) is a copy of the portrait engraving of Haydn by David Weiss, published by Artaria & Co., Vienna, 1808 (Somfai, Josef Haydn. His Life in Contemporary Pictures, no. 21 in the ‘Iconography of Authentic Haydn Pictures’). The manuscript is not identifiable in any of the lists or catalogues of scores in Haydn’s possession made during the last years of his life, and its history until 1951 seems to be quite unknown. Robbins Landon’s was the first modern edition to make use of it.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945788 - 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 39 : Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0037]/040-001945788
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 43 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_39 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1792
- End Date:
- 1792
- Date Range:
- 1792
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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233 x 290mm. ff. 13v, 14r and v, 17v, 25v, 31r and v and 43r and v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 4, 4, 4, 2, 6 (with f. 17 a single leaf inserted into the gathering), 4, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2; the gatherings are numbered in pencil in order 1-6 and 1-5. 12-stave paper; span 202-3mm. The leaves all have pin-holes to top right and left.
Watermark: shield with a bend, a fleur-de-lys above and flourish incorporating the letter W below, countermark ‘J WHATMAN’, similar to no. 104 in Edward Heawood, Watermarks (Hilversum, 1950). Bound in white moiré linen, blind-stamped with a decorative border, the upper cover lettered ‘HAYDN’ in gold; the edges of the leaves slightly trimmed in binding. Watermark partially visible on end-papers: ‘[PROPATRIA EIUSQUE] LIBERTATE’ in a double circle with a crown surmounted by a tree above, enclosing a lion holding a sheaf of arrows, similar to Heawood, no. 3151.
- Custodial History:
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Purchased for Zweig Collection at auction G. Rosen, Berlin, Berlin, 3-4 April, 1951 (see Add. MS 73171, ff. 127-34, including an off-print from the Rosen auction catalogue); British Library, Loan 77.30 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.30
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1989 (Haydn and England).
- 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_39
- Publications:
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Published: Modern critical editions using Zweig MS 39: H.C. Robbins Landon (ed.), Joseph Haydn. Critical Edition of the Complete Symphonies, vol. xi (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1966) and Robert von Zahn (ed.), Joseph Haydn-Institut, Cologne, Joseph Haydn. Werke, I:16, Londoner Sinfonien, vol ii (Munich: Henle Verlag, 1997), pp. 122-190.
Reproduced: First page of music (f. 1v) and inscription from title-page (f. 1r), Rosen, Cat. XV; f. 30r, frontispiece to Joseph Haydn. Werke, I/16, and (detail only), Arthur Searle, Haydn and England (London, 1989), p. 23; ff. 1v, 30r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates XXXIX-XL.
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky, in Gerd Rosen, Berlin, Cat. no. XV, 1951; Hob., vol. i, p. 195; Robbins Landon (ed.), Joseph Haydn ... Symphonies, vol. xi, pp. xix-xxii; Robert von Zahn (ed.), Joseph Haydn-Institut, Cologne, Joseph Haydn. Werke, I:16, Londoner Sinfonien, vol ii (Munich: Henle Verlag, 1997), pp. 195-209. For the portrait engraving by Weiss, see László Somfai, Josef Haydn. His Life in Contemporary Pictures (London, 1969), pp. 201, 216.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)