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Zweig MS 68
- Record Id:
- 040-001945818
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000210
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697719.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 68
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan Zweig’.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945818 - 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 68 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0063]/040-001945818
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697719.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1785
- End Date:
- 1785
- Date Range:
- 1785
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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241 x 193mm. Watermark: crowned shield. Bound [1957] with Zweig MS 64-7, in quarter blue leather and cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZART. FIVE LETTERS.’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- Purchased by Stefan Zweig at Stargardt auction, 8 Feb. 1923 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 36); British Library, Loan 42.3 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.3
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Museum, 1956 (Mozart in the British Museum); 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_68
- Publications:
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Published: Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich Deutsch, Joseph Heinz Eibl, Mozart. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, (Kassel, 1962-1975), no. 867, from facsimiles and an earlier publication, the original stated as lost; Emily Anderson, The Letters of Mozart and his Family, ed. A. Hyatt King and M. Carolan, rev. S. Sadie and F. Smart (London, 1985), no. 528. Reproduced: F.S. Gassner, Zeitschrift für Deutschlands Musik-Vereine und Dilettanten, vol. ii (Karlsruhe, 1842), betw. pp. 160-161.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 382.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)