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Zweig MS 55
- Record Id:
- 040-001945804
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000203
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697603.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 55
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447)
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of six staves. Three movements, as follows:
ff. 1r-5v. ‘All[egr]o’; this and the heading ‘Concerto per il Corno Solo’ on f. 1r are apparently not in Mozart’s hand.
ff. 6r-7v. ‘Larghetto’. Headed ‘Romance’, and signed at top right ‘di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart m[anu] p[ropria]’ (f. 6r).
ff. 8r-11v. Movement III: ‘All:[egr]o’. ‘Leitgeb’ [for Joseph Leutgeb, horn player] appears against the horn line above the lower system on f. 8r and the upper on 11v. Bar count entered in ink [by Mozart?] at the end of the verso of each leaf.
Later annotations to f. 1r, all in ink, include ‘Von Mozart und seine Handschrift’ [in the hand of G.N. Nissen], and the date ‘1783’ [added by J.A. André]. The various numbers added on the same page include, in pencil at the foot of the leaf, 258, the manuscript’s number in André 1841.
Tyson’s date of 1787 is based on a study of the eight different paper types, revealing a structure ‘different from that of virtually any other autograph manuscript of Mozart’. Tyson suggest that the work is not entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63), because it was unlikely to be played by anyone but Leutgeb and the purpose of the Verzeichnüss was primarily to let people know what works were available (Tyson, ‘Problems’). The Liepmannssohn catalogue describes a separate note of authentication by André at that time kept with the manuscript. This manuscript and Zweig MS 9 were purchased at the same sale.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945804 - 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 55 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0053]/040-001945804
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (11 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697603.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1786
- End Date:
- 1788
- Date Range:
- [1787?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 233 x 323mm. Mozart’s folio nos.: 1-5 (movement I) and 1-6 (movements II, III). Structure: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. 12-stave paper; span 189 (ff. 1, 4, 5, 8), 185.5 (ff. 2, 3, 11), 188.5 (f. 6), 183 (f. 7), 186 (f. 9) and 187.5mm (f. 10). Watermark: Alan Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, X:33/2, Wasserzeichen-Katalog (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993), nos. 11 (f. 9), 55 (f. 10), 56 (f. 8), 60 (f. 1), 66 (f. 7), 71 (f. 6), 80 (ff. 2, 3, 11), 93 (ff. 4, 5). Bound [1957] in quarter blue leather and blue cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZART. HORN CONCERTO. K.447.’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- C.A. André, Frankfurt am Main (see Ludwig von Köchel, ed. F. Giegling, A. Weinmann and G. Sievers, Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (6th edition, Wiesbaden, 1964)); purchased by Zweig at Leo Liepmannssohn, auction no. 59, Berlin, 20 May 1930, lot 233 (Add. MS 73167, f. 26); British Library, Loan 42.7 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.7
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Museum 1956 (Mozart in the British Museum); Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, 1956; British Library 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien (Künstlerhaus), 1990 (Zaubertöne).
- 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_55
- Publications:
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Published: Offenbach: J. André, 1800, ‘d’apres la partition en manuscrit’ (Gertrud Haberkamp, Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tutzing, 1986), vol. i. p. 214); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, V:14/5 (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1987), pp. 29-56.
Reproduced: f. 1r in Albi Rosenthal and A. Tyson (eds.), Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue. A Facsimile (London, 1990), p. 19; f. 6r in Leo Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction cat. no. 59, 20-21 May, 1930, plate X, and in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, V:14/5, p. xxi; f. 11v, upper four staves, with the name ‘Leitgeb’, in Alec Hyatt King, A Mozart Legacy. Aspects of the British Library Collections (London, 1984), p. 49; f. 8r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LVIII.
Bibliography: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, V:14/5 (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1987), pp. xii-xiii, and Franz Giegling, ibid., Kritischer Bericht (1988), pp. e26-e37; A. Tyson, ‘Problems ...’ in C. Banks, A. Searle, M, Turner (eds.), Sundry Sorts of Music Books. Essays on the British Library Collections (London, 1993), pp. 252-5; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 378.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)