Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Zweig MS 63
- Record Id:
- 040-001945812
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00020b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353137.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 63
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of each work on versos, and musical incipits opposite on rectos. Each opening usually contains the entries for five works; the incipits are written on systems of two staves, the rectos pre-ruled for this purpose with ten staves grouped in pairs. The first entry, dated 9 February 1784, is for the Piano Concerto in E flat (K449), the last (ff. 28v-29r), dated 15 November 1791, for the Masonic cantata ‘Laut verkünde unsre Freude’ (K623); thereafter folios are ruled with staves on the rectos but otherwise blank. The first ten entries are numbered in ink [perhaps by G.N. Nissen], thereafter numbers are inserted in pencil, with the number 30 used twice. With various other later markings in ink and pencil, notably crosses in groups of three against the beginning of many of the text entries, single crosses at the end of some of the incipits, and an incomplete numeration system on the incipit pages grouping the works by fours.
Though the first work in the Verzeichnüss is dated 9 Feb. 1784, it has been suggested that the entries for the opening group of works were transcribed retrospectively in Nov. of that year (for a discussion of this matter see Leeson and Whitwell, and Rosenthal and Tyson pp. 14-15). It has since been suggested (Konrad, Mozarts Schaffensweise), on the basis of the inks used, that a much larger group of entries occupying the first ten leaves of the Verzeichnüss may have been taken from an earlier catalogue and transferred to the present book in 1786. The Verzeichnüss has been known to Mozart scholars from the beginning, either in the original or in the form of the André publications listed above. It forms the basis of summary lists in the biographies by G.N. Nissen (1828) and, its first ‘publication’ in English, G. Holmes (1845); the dates given in the Verzeichnüss, together with a full transcription of Mozart’s descriptions, are included in the entries for the relevant works in Ludwig von Köchel, ed. F. Giegling, A. Weinmann and G. Sievers, Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (6th edition, Wiesbaden, 1964). The publication in 1938 by Reichner in Vienna of the facsimile editied by Deutsch, follows the issue through the same house of a facsimile of ‘das Veilchen’ (Zweig MS 56) in 1936 as well as Zweig’s own 1931 facsimile edition of the first of his letters of Mozart to his cousin (see Zweig MS 64).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945812 - 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 63 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0061]/040-001945812
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 44 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100156353137.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1791
- Date Range:
- 1784-1791
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
223 x 170mm. Numbered as follows: [0], 1-24 (numbers in Mozart’s hand), 25-28 (numbers added later in pencil) [29-43]; [29v] blank, [30-43] ruled with staves on rectos, otherwise blank.
Structure: 8 [the first 2 pasted down and unnumbered], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 [the last two pasted down and unnumbered] (see structure diagram in Rosenthal and Tyson, p. 12). Rectos ruled with 10 staves grouped in pairs; the span of each pair of staves 22mm., the total span variable (smallest 164mm., largest 188mm.). Watermark: a unicorn, counter-mark ‘J.H.I.’ (see Rosenthal and Tyson, p. 12). Bound in quarter brown leather with coloured patterned stencilled boards; label [f.i] with title in Mozart’s hand pasted to upper cover. See Rosenthal and Tyson, frontispiece, for reproduction in colour of upper cover. In a box covered with dark-blue morocco, gold tooled, by Baynton of Bath, lettered ‘MOZART. VERZEICHNÜSS MEINER WERKE. 1781-1792’ [sic] on upper cover.
- Custodial History:
- Sent by Constanze Mozart to J.A. André, Offenbach, 1800; sale of manuscripts of the heirs of André, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction 55, 12 Oct. 1929, lot no. 17 [unsold]; subsequently purchased from Liepmannssohn for Zweig by Paul Graupe (see Rosenthal, ‘A Footnote’), and purchased by Zweig through H. Eisemann, 1935 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 34); British Library, Loan 42.1 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.1
- 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, Historische Museum der Stadt Wien (Künstlerhaus), 1990 (Zaubertöne); New York, Pierpont Morgan Library and British Library, 1991 (Mozart: Prodigy of Nature); Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Palais Harrach), 1996 (Botschaft der Musik); Salzburg, Salzburg Museum, 2006 (Viva! Mozart).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_63
- Publications:
-
Published: A. André (ed.), Thematisches Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Kompositionen von W.A Mozart ... (Offenbach: Johann André, 1805) giving incipits in full, with summary descriptions of the works in German and French; ibid., W.A. Mozarts thematische Catalog ... nebst einen erläuternden Vorbericht von A. André. Neue mit dem Original-Manuscript nochmals verglichene Ausgabe (Offenbach: Johann André, [1828]), giving incipits in full and a complete transcription of Mozart’s descriptions of the works. In both editions the entries are numbered 1-145. A transcription of the text, with incipits, is given in E.H. Müller von Asow (ed.), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke (Vienna, 1943), where the faulty numeration found in the manuscript is followed. The Rosenthal/Tyson Facsimile (see below) includes a complete transcription of the text.
Reproduced: Individual pages and openings from the manuscript have been reproduced widely, amongst others ff. 27v-28r in Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXVIII, and ff. 4v-5r in Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 381. Two full facsimiles have been published: (1) Otto Erich Deutsch (ed.), Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke. Facsimile der Handschrift ... (Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1938, in a limited edition; reissued New York 1956, with an English translation of Deutsch’s commentary), and (2) Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson (eds.), Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue. A Facsimile (London, 1990); also published with the introduction in German translation as Mozart. Eigenhändiges Werkverzeichnis. Faksimile, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe Sämtliche Werke, X:33/1 (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1991). The earlier facsimile is slightly reduced and lacks the blank leaves at the end of the manuscript; the Rosenthal/Tyson, at actual size, includes these leaves.
Bibliography: D.N. Leeson and D. Whitwell, ‘Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue’ Musical Times, vol. civ (1973), pp. 781-3; Alec Hyatt King, A Mozart Legacy. Aspects of the British Library Collections (London, 1984), pp. 53-6; Albi Rosenthal, ‘A Footnote to the Recent History of Mozart’s ‘Verzeichnüss’ Manuscript’, in C. Banks, A. Searle, M, Turner (eds.), Sundry Sorts of Music Books. Essays on the British Library Collections (London, 1993), pp. 256-8; Ulrich Konrad, Mozarts Schaffensweise. Studien zu den Werkautographen, Skizzen und Entwürfen (Göttingen, 1992), p. 355; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 381. The introduction to Rosenthal and Tyson (eds.), Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue. A Facsimile (London, 1990 and Kassel, 1991, see Reproduced above) includes a history of the manuscript, a detailed description and commentary, and a full transcription of Mozart’s text.
- Exhibitions:
- British Library Treasures, (online), 27 February 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)