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Zweig MS 62
- Record Id:
- 040-001945811
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00020a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697687.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 62
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio), 1791: duettino ‘Deh prendi un dolce amplesso’, for Sesto and Annio, from Act I (K621, no. 3).
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Headed ‘Duettino.’, with ‘No. 3’ at left, and ‘Atto I’ at right, all in Mozart’s hand in upper margin of f.1r. ‘No. 2’ added in upper margin of f. 1r in brown crayon. Other additions include, at the end (f. 2r) in ink, a bar count and ‘Seg[ue?] subito la marcia 3½’. The opera is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) under the date 5 Sept. 1791.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945811 - 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 62 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio),… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0060]/040-001945811
- 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_100161697687.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1791
- End Date:
- 1791
- Date Range:
- [1791]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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230 x 315mm. f. 2v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2. 12-stave paper; span 187mm. Watermark: Alan Tyson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, X:33/2, Wasserzeichen-Katalog (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993), no. 105.
Old covers (now in Add. MS 73176) comprise binding of red cloth-covered boards, with leather label lettered ‘MOZART’S HANDSCHRI[FT]’ on upper cover, and with on the front fly-leaf printed notice (from Dresdner-Anzeiger, 16 May 1923) and manuscript note, Dresden Nov. 1923, both by Ernst Lewicki and in German, about the manuscript and its provenance. Bound [1957] in quarter blue leather and blue cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZART. DUETTINO. K.621.NO.3’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- Removed from autograph full score by Constanze Mozart and given to August Christian Exner, Zittau; then Johanna Gebauer, and so to Theo. Bauer (Exner’s great-grandson), Dresden, 1923 (see Giegling and Add. MS 73176); L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction no. 52, 16-17 Nov. 1928, lot no. 421a; purchased by Zweig at L. Liepmannsohn, Berlin, auction no. 53, 8 March, 1929, lot no. 118 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 33, see also Add. MS 73169, f. 50); British Library, Loan 42.15 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.15
- 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); 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_62
- Publications:
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Published: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, II:5/xx (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1970), pp. 47-9.
Reproduced: f. 1r, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction cat. no. 53, 1929, pl. IV; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, II:5/xx, p. xiv; ff. 1v-2r, Chris A. Banks, Malcolm Turner, Mozart: Prodigy of Nature (New York and London, 1991), pp. 80-81, and Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXVII.
Bibliography: Franz Giegling, ‘Zu den Rezitativen von Mozarts Oper ‘Titus’’, Mozart Jahrbuch 1967 (Salzburg, 1968), p. 121; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, II:5/xx, pp. ix-x; A. Tyson, ‘La Clemenza di Tito and its Chronology’, in ibid. Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), pp. 48-60; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 380.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)