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Zweig MS 56
- Record Id:
- 040-001945805
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000204
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697627.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 56
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Song ‘Das Veilchen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano (K476)
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. In G; tempo direction ‘Allegretto:’. Vocal line written in the soprano clef (apparently written over a treble clef); the parts labelled ‘Singstim[m]e.’ and ‘Klavier:’ against the first system (f. 1r). The heading ‘Das veilchen.’ ‘von göthe’ also in Mozart’s hand (f. 1r). Later annotations to f. 1r, all in ink, are: ‘Mozarts Handschrift’, ‘8 Jun. 1785’ [both in the hand of G.N. Nissen] and ‘Breitkopfs 5tes Heft’. At the end (f. 1v) ownership note of Wilhelm Speyer, in ink.
Entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) under the date of 8 June 1785. Jahn’s letter to Speyer, 23 Feb. 1855, asking if he might reproduce the manuscript - ‘Ich wünsche der Biographie Mozarts... ein hübsches Faksimile mitzugeben, und da weiss ich nichts, was so anziehend und passend wäre, als Ihr ‘Veilchen’’ - is printed in Edward Speyer’s, Wilhelm Speyer. In his autobiography Speyer (14 May 1839 - Jan. 1934) gives an account of showing the manuscript to Brahms in 1889, and to Elizabeth Schumann in 1926. ‘Das Veilchen’ was one of the manuscripts singled out for mention in ‘Sinn und Schönheit der Autographen’, Zweig’s address at the 1934 Sunday Times Book Exhibition at which treasures from the Speyer collection were on show. In The World of Yesterday he describes it as ‘the immortal Veilchen’. Although Zweig records the date of his acquisition of ‘das Veilchen’ as 1935, and although it was displayed at the 1934 Sunday Times book exhibition in the context of the Speyer Collection, Desmond Flower, who organised the exhibition, recalls it as lent by Zweig and already ‘his own favourite’. In his catalogue no. 39 of 1948 the London dealer Leonard Hyman offered the ‘Original Manuscript’ of ‘Das Veilchen’, quoting its ‘well-known’ provenance down to its acquisition by Zweig in 1935. This information has been taken into the entry in Köchel, Verzeichnis, but in fact what Hyman had, ‘2 pages, oblong, framed’, was a facsimile.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945805 - 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 56 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Song ‘Das Veilchen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano (K476) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0054]/040-001945805
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697627.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1785
- End Date:
- 1785
- Date Range:
- 1785
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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220 x 308mm. f. 2r and v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2. 12-stave paper; span 183-4mm. Watermark: Alan Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, X:33/2, Wasserzeichen-Katalog (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993), no. 66. Bound [1957] in quarter blue leather and blue cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZART. DAS VEILCHEN. K.476.’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- Sent by Constanze Mozart to Breitkopf & Härtel, 1799, and sold by them to J.A. André (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, III:8, Kritischer Bericht); given by André to Wilhelm Speyer (1790-1878), Frankfurt, before 1855 (see Ludwig von Köchel, ed. F. Giegling, A. Weinmann and G. Sievers, Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (6th edition, Wiesbaden, 1964); Edward Speyer (d. 1934), London; purchased by Zweig from the Speyer Collection, 1935 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 27); given to Friderike Zweig after Stefan Zweig’s death in 1942, in accordance with his wishes; purchased through H. Eisemann and returned to the Zweig Collection, London, 1955 (Add. MSS 73169, f. 44, and 73172, f. 40); British Library, Loan 42.4 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.4
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: London, Nov. 1934 (Sunday Times Book Exhibition); British Museum 1956 (Mozart and 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); New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, and British Library 1991 (Mozart: Prodigy of Nature); Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2008 (Die drei Leben des Stefan Zweig).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_56
- Publications:
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Published: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, III:8 (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1963), pp. 26-7.
Reproduced: The manuscript has frequently been reproduced complete in facsimile, most notably inserted at the end of vol. i of Otto Jahn, W.A. Mozart (Leipzig, 1856), with an acknowledgement to ‘my friend Wilhelm Speyer’, in subsequent editions, and in the revision of Jahn’s work by H. Abert. Zweig arranged publication of a facsimile, with an afterword by Alfred Einstein, by his Viennese publisher Reichner in 1936, shortly after his acquisition of the manuscript (see Zohn and Baricelli, ‘Music in Stefan Zweig’s Last Years’); another was published in New York in 1949, after the manuscript had passed to Friderike Zweig. More recent complete reproductions include in F.M. Zweig, Stefan Zweig. Ein Bildbiographie (Munich, 1961), pp. 94-5, and in Musical Times, 1989 (see Bibliography below); f.1r is in Walther Gerstenberg, Musikerhandschiften von Palestrina bis Beethoven (Zürich, 1960), pl. 110, in Chris A. Banks, Malcolm Turner, Mozart: Prodigy of Nature (New York and London, 1991), p. 64, in Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LIX, and in Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 379.
Bibliography: Edward Speyer, Wilhelm Speyer der Liederkomponist (Munich, 1925), p. 357; ibid., My Life and Friends (London, 1937), pp. 90, 227; ‘Sinn und Schönheit’, in Martin Bircher (ed.), Stefan Zweig’s Welt der Autographen (Zurich, 1996), p. 42; Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (London, 1943), p. 266; Harry Zohn and Jean-Pierre Baricelli, ‘Music in Stefan Zweig’s Last Years’, in The Juilliard Review, vol. iii/2 (1956), pp. 5-6; Alec Hyatt King, Some British Collectors of Music (Cambridge, 1963), p. 99; Ernst August Ballin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, III:8, Kritischer Bericht (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1964), pp. 105-13; John Arthur, ‘Mozart’s Das Veilchen. A commentary on the autograph’, in Musical Times, vol. cxxx (1989), pp. 149-50 (with a facsimile of the manuscript); Desmond Flower, Fellows in Foolscap (London, 1991), p. 125; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 378.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)