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Zweig MS 42
- Record Id:
- 040-001945791
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001f6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158971089.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 42
- Title:
- Michael Haydn: String quartet in B flat, ‘Divertimento Notturno’ (Perger 125)
- Scope & Content:
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Incomplete, lacking the last 100 bars of the final ‘Rondeau’. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Headed in upper margin of f. 1r ‘Divertimento notturno. à 4. 2 Violini, Viola e Basso.’, with the signature ‘di G. Michele Haydn m[anu] p[ropr]ia’. Comprising the following six movements:
f. 1r. ‘Marcia’, tempo direction ‘Scherzoso’; the opening bars marked ‘a. mez. voc.’.
ff. 1v-3r. ‘All[egr]o assai’.
f. 3v. ‘Menuetto’ ‘Allegretto’, and ‘Trio’.
ff. 4r-5r. ‘molto Adagio e cantabile’, the first and last two words in lighter ink.
ff. 5v-6r. ‘Menuetto’ and ‘Trio’, no tempo marking.
ff. 7r-8v. ‘Rondeau’, ‘Presto’; breaks off at the end of the page at key change after bar 163. An ad. lib. repeat of the central section is marked (ff. 7v-8r).
With the composer’s page numbers throughout in the outer margin against the first line of the upper system on each page, and his bar counts at the end of the first four movements. Numbers from Hinterberger catalogues IX and 18 added in pencil at the foot of f. 1r.
This manuscript is a fair copy by the composer; it contains no corrections and is set out with each movement beginning on a new page. It was not known either to Perger or to Zehetmaier; the manuscript referred to as autograph by Perger is the Lang copy in Munich. In his transcriptions of Michael Haydn works Lang copied both the composer’s orthography and his signature. The Munich copy is headed ‘Divertimento à 4. 2 Violini, Viola e Contrabasso’, and the tempo direction for the first movement appears as ‘Scherzante’. The Hinterberger catalogues erroneously describe the present manuscript as of 14 pages.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945791 - 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 42 : Michael Haydn: String quartet in B flat, ‘Divertimento Notturno’ (Perger 125) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0040]/040-001945791
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (8 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158971089.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1780
- End Date:
- 1790
- Date Range:
- c 1785
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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232 x 322mm. Paginated 1-16 by the composer. Structure: 4, 4. 10-stave paper, span 182-3mm. Watermark: ‘W’ on a crowned rococo shield, three crescent moons with ‘REAL’ beneath. Sewn, with a strip of brown/pink paper pasted round the outside of the gutter edges of ff. 1 and 8.
- Custodial History:
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Date of acquisition by Zweig not known; offered for sale through Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, catalogues IX [1936] no. 255, 18 [1937] no. 87, and XX [1937] no. 216; unsold and retained in the Collection; British Library, Loan 77.54 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.54
- 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_42
- Publications:
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Reproduced: ff. 1r, 3v-4r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates XLIII-XLIV.
Bibliography: Lothar Herbert Perger (ed.), Michael Haydn. Instrumentalwerke I, Denkmäler der Tonkunst Österreich, Jahrgang xiv, part i (vol. xxix) (Vienna, 1907), no. 125 in Thematic Catalogue; for N. Lang’s copies of works by M. Haydn see Robert Münster, ‘Nikolaus Lang und seine Michael-Haydn-Kopien in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek’, Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. xxvii (1972), pp. 25-9; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 372.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)