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Zweig MS 74
- Record Id:
- 040-001945824
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00022e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 74
- Title:
- Maurice Ravel: ‘Boléro’, ballet for orchestra, 1928: version for piano duet
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph score. Written in ink, on systems of five staves (centre stave blank). Headed ‘Bolero’, with tempo direction ‘Tempo di bolero moderato assai [crotchet] = 76’ (f. 1r). The Secondo part is marked ‘Sordina’ at the beginning, and ‘senza sord.’ two bars after cue no. 4 (f. 2v). There are many minor differences from the published piano duet score, for example in the chording in the Primo part at various points and in the left hand accompanying figures in the Secondo part between cues 7 and 8. There are annotations and corrections in pencil to notation and phrasing throughout; additional tempo directions, cue nos. and occasional fingerings have also been inserted in pencil. Some of these annotations appear to be autograph, more are in another hand, apparently editorial, and bring the manuscript into line with some, though not all of the differences from the published score. Engraver’s markings of line endings and page turns appear to have been almost completely erased from the manuscript throughout. At the top left of f. 1r the words ‘Reduction pour Piano a 4 mains (original)’ in pencil have been almost completely erased, with beneath them, ‘Maurice Ravel’ still easily legible. Over the erased portion, in what appears to be the same hand, is written in pencil ‘1 - Manuscrit Piano 4 m.’.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945824 - 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 74 : Maurice Ravel: ‘Boléro’, ballet for orchestra, 1928: version for piano duet - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0069]/040-001945824
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (8 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_74 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1928
- End Date:
- 1930
- Date Range:
- [1929?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 266 x 348mm. f. 8v printed with staves but otherwise blank. Paginated 2-15 in ink by the composer. 22-stave paper, span 224mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. Structure: single leaves. In binding the gutter edges have been cut and individual folios mounted on guards, so that the original structure of the manuscript is no longer evident. No watermark. Bound in quarter blue leather and marbled boards, the spine gold-tooled and with two red leather panels lettered ‘RAVEL’ and ‘BOLERO / PIANO / 4 / MAINS’.
- Custodial History:
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Lehman collection [New York]; acquired for the Zweig Collection with Zweig MSS 5 and 49 by exchange, [1962]; British Library, Loan 77.34 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.34
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs), and from 1998 (as part of permanent exhibition).
- Information About Copies:
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Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_74
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, Music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1987), p. 76; f. 3v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXXVII.
Bibliography: Arbie Orenstein, Ravel. Man and Musician (New York, 1975), p. 239; Marcel Maynat, Maurice Ravel (Paris, 1986), pp. 774-6. Neither Orenstein nor Maynat include this manuscript in their work lists.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)