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Zweig MS 57
- Record Id:
- 040-001945806
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000205
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697632.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 57
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, opera in four acts (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), 1786: draft of part of Cherubino’s Act I aria ‘Non so più cosa son’ (K492, no. 6)
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Fragmentary draft in score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegro vivace’ (f. 1r). Contains the opening 34 bars; all strings are scored in for the first 6 bars (f. 1r), thereafter only the vocal and bass lines are entered. Mozart’s headings ‘Atto 1mo’, ‘Aria di cherubino’ and ‘Scena V.’ are at the top of f. 1r. On the blank upper staves on f. 2v Mozart has sketched 16 bars of a piece in E minor for strings and two oboes, and 8 bars of an untexted vocal piece in four parts. Later additions include ‘Mozarts Handschrift’ in ink at top right of f. 1r. [in the hand of G.N. Nissen].
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945806 - 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 57 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, opera in four acts (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), 1786: draft of part of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0055]/040-001945806
- 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_100161697632.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1785
- End Date:
- 1786
- Date Range:
- [1785-1786]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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240 x 325mm. Early foliation 8 and 9 in red crayon at the bottom right of rectos. Structure: 2. 12-stave paper; span 183.5mm. Watermark: Alan Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, X:33/2, Wasserzeichen-Katalog (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993), no.74. Bound [1957] in quarter blue leather and blue cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZART. NON SO PIU. K.492. NO.6.’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- C.A. André, Frankfurt am Main; purchased by Zweig at auction of manuscripts of the heirs of André, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction 55, 12 October 1929, lot no. 20 (record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 28); British Library, Loan 42.8 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.8
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Museum, 1956 (Mozart and the British Museum); Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, 1956; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library and British Library, 1991 (Mozart: Prodigy of Nature).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_57
- Publications:
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Published: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, II:5/xvi, 2 (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1973), app. no. III 3, pp. 629-30.
Reproduced: f. 1r, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction cat. no. 55, plate vol., plate XI, Alec Hyatt King, A Mozart Legacy. Aspects of the British Library Collections (London, 1984), p. 51, and Chris A. Banks, Malcolm Turner, Mozart: Prodigy of Nature (New York and London, 1991), p. 68; f. 1r (heading and upper three staves only), Stefan Zweig, ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, in Philobiblon, vol. iii (1930), p. 283; ff. 1r, 2v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates LX-LXI.
Bibliography: ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, in Martin Bircher (ed.), Stefan Zweig’s Welt der Autographen (Zurich, 1996), p. 39; Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (London, 1943), p. 266; Ulrich Konrad, Mozarts Schaffensweise. Studien zu den Werkautographen, Skizzen und Entwürfen (Göttingen, 1992), pp. 170-4, and, for the first of the two sketches on f. 2v, p. 256; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 379.
- Exhibitions:
- Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, V&A, London, 30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)