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Zweig MS 69
- Record Id:
- 040-001945819
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000229
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697725.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 69
- Title:
- Contract of marriage between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Constanze Weber
- Scope & Content:
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The marriage contract is written in ink in a notary's hand and signed on the reverse by Constanze Weber, her mother Maria Caecilia Weber, her witness Johann Carl Cetto von Kronstorff and her guardian Johann Thorwart, and by Mozart (‘Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’) and his witness Franz Gilowsky. With impressions of seals against each signature, all armorial except Mozart’s own ‘WAM’ seal. The text of the contract stipulates that two copies were to be drawn up and signed, one for each contractor.
Mozart described the wedding in his letter to his father of 7 August 1782. The only person present in addition to the signatories to this contract was Constanze’s youngest sister, Sophie.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945819 - 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 69 : Contract of marriage between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Constanze Weber - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0064]/040-001945819
- 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_100161697725.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1782
- End Date:
- 1782
- Date Range:
- 3 Aug 1782
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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347 x 231mm. f. 2r and v blank apart from the later addition in ink on the verso of the words ‘original Heuraths [sic] Kontrakt’. On paper with heraldic stamp in black ink at top left of f. 1r. Structure: 2. The upper part of f. 2 torn away and replaced with a later repair. Watermark: [indistinct, crowned eagle with a shield, holding orb and sceptre?], countermark, cartouche with ‘ICP’. Formerly bound [1957] in quarter blue leather and blue cloth-covered boards, lettered ‘Z’ and ‘MOZARTS MARRIAGE CONTRACT. 3 AUG. 1782.’ on spine.
- Custodial History:
- Auction of Hauser (Karlsruhe) collection, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 1-3 May 1905, lot 146; acquired by Zweig from the Speyer Collection, 1935 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 37); British Library, Loan 42.2 from 1957 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 42.2
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: London, Nov. 1934 (Sunday Times Book Exhibition); British Museum, 1956 (Mozart in the British Museum); Paris, Biblothèque Nationale, 1956 (Mozart en France); Edinburgh, 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).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_69
- Publications:
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Published: O.E. Deutsch, Mozart: die Dokumente seines Lebens (Kassel, 1961), pp. 180-1; English translation ibid., Mozart: A Documentary Biography (London, 1965, rev. 1966), pp. 203-4; the complete text is also given in O. Jahn, W.A. Mozart, vol. iii (Leipzig, 1858), pp. 474-5, in subsequent editions, and in the revision of Jahn by H. Abert. Jahn’s source was a certified copy supplied to him by J. Laimegger, ‘k.k. Landesgerichts-Archivs-Vorstand’, and is taken over unchanged into later editions and Abert’s revision; Deutsch uses Zweig MS 69.
Reproduced: f.1r, in colour, Krasa (ed.), Zaubertöne, p. 225; f.1v, Alec Hyatt King, A Mozart Legacy. Aspects of the British Library Collections (London, 1984), p. 60; Chris A. Banks, Malcolm Turner, Mozart: Prodigy of Nature (New York and London, 1991), opp. p. 56 [in colour]; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXX.
Bibliography: ‘Sinn und Schönheit’, Bircher, p. 11; Selma Krasa and others (eds.), Zaubertöne. Mozart in Wien 1781-1791 (Vienna, 1990), pp. 224-5; Maynard Solomon, Mozart. A Life (London, 1996), p. 278; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 382. For Mozart's letter about the wedding, see Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich Deutsch, Joseph Heinz Eibl, Mozart. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen (Kassel, 1962-1975), no.684; 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. 258.
- Exhibitions:
- Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, CaiaxaForum, Barcelona, 17 September 2019 - 12 January 2020
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)