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Zweig MS 50
- Record Id:
- 040-001945799
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0001fe
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697563.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 50
- Title:
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Duet ‘Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich’ (words, Heinrich Heine), op. 63, no. 1, for two soprano voices and piano
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction: ‘And[an]te con moto’. The first two verses are indicated by repeat signs with the words, marked ‘Strophe I’ and ‘II’, written separately one under each of the two vocal lines. Music occupies ff. 1v and 2r. Attestation of authenticity and presentation inscription to ‘meinen lieben Mariane’, signed Mariane [sic] Willemer, undated, in ink on f. 1r.
There are a number of very minor variants between this manuscript and the published score, where the tempo marking is given as ‘Allegretto con moto’. In the London edition English words are also given: ‘I would that my love could silently flow’. Presumably Mendelssohn wrote out this manuscript of the song for Marianne von Willemer (1784-1860), Goethe’s ‘Zuleika’ and herself a poet, before she presented it to a namesake.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945799 - 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 50 : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Duet ‘Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich’ (words, Heinrich Heine), op. 63, no. 1, for two… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0048]/040-001945799
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697563.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1835
- End Date:
- 1836
- Date Range:
- c 1836
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 295 x 230mm. f. 2v ruled but otherwise blank. Structure: 2. 16-stave paper; span 248mm. Watermark: ‘IIILD’ [?]. The fore-edges of the leaves slightly trimmed.
- Custodial History:
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Acquired by Zweig from the Speyer collection, [1934-5] (copy of record card, Add. MS 73169, f. 38).
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: London, Nov. 1934 (Sunday Times Book Exhibition); British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); British Library, 1988 (Stefan Zweig series exhibition).
- 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_50
- Publications:
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Reproduced: ff. 1v-2r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LIII.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 375; Ralf Wehner, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Thematisch-systenatisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV), Studien-Ausgabe (Leipzig: Breitkopf, 2009).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)