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Zweig MS 70
- Record Id:
- 040-001945820
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00022a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697739.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 70
- Title:
- Modest Musorgsky: Songs ‘Svietik Savishna’ (words, the composer) and ‘Iz slez moikh vyroslo mnogo’ (words, translated by M. Mikhaylov from ‘Aus meinem Tränen’ by Heinrich Heine), for voice and piano
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of three staves. Written out as a pair, with title-page (f. 1r) giving dedications of ‘Svietik Savishna’ to Tsezar Antonovich Kiui, and ‘Iz slez moikh’ to Vladimir Petrovich Opochinin. As follows:
ff. 1v-3r. ‘Svietik Savishna’. Vocal line in the bass clef, for baritone; tempo direction ‘Dovol’no skoro’ [quite fast] (f. 1v). Signed, and dated Pavlovsk, 2 Sept. 1866 (f. 3r). Sub-titled ‘piesenka durachka’ [the fool’s song] on title-page.
ff. 3v-4r. ‘Iz slez moikh’. Vocal line in the treble clef, for soprano; tempo directions ‘Ne slishkom, Medlenno spokoino ‘ [not too slow, calmly] and ‘skoriee - s uvlecheniem’ [faster, with passion] (ff. 3v, 4r). Signed, and dated Pavlovsk, 1 Sept. 1866 (f. 4r). Sub-titled ‘Intermezzo’ on title-page.
This manuscript was not known to the editor of the complete edition and contains variants from the text given there; the differences are very minor in ‘Svietik Savishna’, more substantial in the second song, where the version in Zweig MS 70 is a bar shorter. The typewritten record card has a note of a letter of 1927 from Nicolai Likhachev referring to an autograph of the first song in the St Petersburg Conservatory; the letter, originally with the manuscript, appears no longer to survive.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945820 - 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 70 : Modest Musorgsky: Songs ‘Svietik Savishna’ (words, the composer) and ‘Iz slez moikh vyroslo mnogo’ (words, translated by… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0065]/040-001945820
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697739.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Russian
- Scripts:
- Cyrillic
- Start Date:
- 1866
- End Date:
- 1866
- Date Range:
- 1866
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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261 x 380mm. f. 4v printed with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 4. 9-stave paper, staves grouped in threes, total span 210mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. No watermark. Sewn.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired by Zweig from V.A. Heck, Vienna, 6 July 1929 (record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 38); British Library, Loan 77.33 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.33
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_70
- Publications:
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Published: ‘Svietik Savishna’, St. Petersburg: Johannsen, 1867, and Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff, 1898; both songs in M. Mussorgsky. Sämtliche Werke, vol. v, fasc. 3, Lieder und Gesänge, ed. Paul Lamm (Moscow: Staatsmusikverlag R.S.F.S.R., 1933).
Reproduced: f. 4r, Arthur Searle, Music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1987), p. 49; British Library Zweig Concert Series programme book 1987, p. 7; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXXI.
Bibliography: ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, in Martin Bircher (ed.), Stefan Zweig’s Welt der Autographen (Zurich, 1996), p. 39; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 382.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)