Zweig MS 82

Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Nicht zu geschwind, kraftvoll’ (f. 1r). Minor autograph corrections to music and text in ink in a number of places. Title ‘Schlachtlied. Von Klopstock. / Doppel=Chor.’, with date and signature ‘28. Febr. 1827 Frz. Schubert M[anu propr]ia’, at head of f. 1r. A different paper, differently ruled, from the rest of the manuscript is used for ff. 3-4 (f. 4v ruled but otherwise blank and cancelled in pencil); there follow the stubs of three excised leaves, and the first four bars on f. 5r have been struck through. From this it appears that the bifolium ff. 3-4 was inserted as a revision of the text on the excised folios, the cancelled bars on f. 5r being the continuation of that earlier version. Various engraver’s or copyist’s markings in pencil throughout, with a few pencil corrections to the music; the markings include the page breaks (unnumbered) in the first edition, though the line-ends marked into the manuscript do not correspond to those in this publication. The number ‘108’ and the posthumous opus no. ‘op. 151.’ added in ink in another hand or hands beneath the title. A calligraphic title-page (f. ii) is part of the later binding. D 432 is a setting of the same Klopstock text, for choir or four solo voices and piano, made in 1816.