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Zweig MS 83
- Record Id:
- 040-001945834
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000238
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697830.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 83
- Title:
- Franz Schubert: ‘Mirjams Siegesgesang’ (words Franz Grillparzer), for soprano solo, choir and piano (D 942)
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink; mostly on systems of 6 staves: soloist and chorus sopranos parts on the same stave and marked ‘solo’ or ‘tutti’, systems of 3 staves for passages for soprano solo and piano only. Tempo directions ‘All[egr]o giusto (f. 2r) - Allegretto (f. 4r) - All[egr]o molto (end of f. 8r) [followed by] All[egr]o agitato (top of f. 8v) - An[dan]tino’ (f. 12v). Minor autograph corrections to text and music throughout; one bar added at end of first system (f. 2r) by extending staves into right-hand margin. Title ‘Mirjams Siegesgesang / Von Grillparzer / Chor mit Sopran Solo / Franz Schubert m[anu] p[ropr]ia / März 1828’ written over staves on recto of f. 1; verso blank except for stave ruling. Music begins f. 2r, where title, date and signature are given again. Markings in pencil ‘3-42’ possibly indicate page numbers in a copy or edition, but do not coincide with pages in the first edition; bar count in pencil at end of each section, totalled at end of work (f. 18v). Numbers 31 (top right f. 1r) and 33 (top left f. 18v) added in pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945834 - 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 83 : Franz Schubert: ‘Mirjams Siegesgesang’ (words Franz Grillparzer), for soprano solo, choir and piano (D 942) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0079]/040-001945834
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (18 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697830.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1828
- End Date:
- 1828
- Date Range:
- Mar 1828
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 245 x 320mm. f. 1v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Later pencil pagination ‘1-34’ from f. 2r. Structure: 1 and 18 conjoint, 2-9 and 10-17 each comprising 4 nested bifolia. 12-stave paper, span 185mm. Watermark: fleur de lys. Unbound and unsewn. In blue cloth-covered portfolio lettered ‘SCHUBERT’ on spine and upper cover, and ‘S.Z.’ on upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Weinberger & Hofbauer, Vienna (Kinsky, p. 204); Sotheby’s, London, 1 July 1907, lot 20, ‘from the library of Stuart M. Samuel, M.P.’; Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne; purchased by Zweig at Henrici, Berlin, 23 Feb. 1928 (record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 45); British Library, Loan 77.39 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.39
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: Christie’s, London, then Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Musiksammlung), 1987-8 (Creative Spirit in the 19th Century).
- 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_83
- Publications:
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Published: Salome Reiser (ed.), Franz Schubert. Mirjams Siegesgesang (Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1998).
Reproduced: f. 2r, Kinsky, Heyer. Katalog, pl. xxix; Reiser, Franz Schubert. Mirjams Siegesgesang, p. 5; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate LXXXVIII.
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky, Muisikhistorisches Museum Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln. Katalog, vol. iv (Cologne, 1916), pp. 204-6; O. E. Deutsch (ed.), Schubert. Die Erinnerungen seiner Freunde (Leipzig, 1966), p. 17. Deutsch's Erinnerungen records Schubert’s intention to prepare a version of this work with full orchestra; Dietrich Berke (ed.), Franz Schubert, Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, III:2a (1996), pp. XXII-IV; Reiser, Franz Schubert. Mirjams Siegesgesang, p. 43; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), pp. 387-88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)