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Zweig MS 84
- Record Id:
- 040-001945835
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000239
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697870.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 84
- Title:
- Heinrich Schütz: [‘Schwanengesang’], setting in German of Psalm 119, with Psalm 100 and the German Magnificat (SWV 482-494), for two four-part choirs with organ continuo: organ continuo part
- Scope & Content:
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Copy, with autograph annotations. Figured bass line, written in dark brown ink on single staves, with key words and phrases of the text written in beneath, and indicating the sections allocated to each of the two choirs. In a volume labelled ‘ORGANUM’ (f. i) on the upper cover. The music is in a copyist’s hand, with in the composer’s autograph a dedication to the Elector of Saxony and an annotation, and a printed title-page and list of contents. All texts in German. As follows: f. 1r. Dedication page in Schütz’s hand: ‘Wornebenst An Ihre Churfurstl. Durchl. Meinem Gnädigsten Herrn ... Author’. f. 2r. Printed title-page, beginning ‘Königs und Propheten / Davids / Hundert und Neunzehender / Psalm / in / Eilf Stukken ...’, ‘Organum / Dresden / Gedruckt mit Seyfferts Schrifften. / 1671.’. ff. 3r-23r. Music. With the composer’s annotations on f. 5r correcting a note and adding to the textual underlay. f. 27r. Printed list of contents, beginning ‘Catalogus, / über / Heinrich Schützens / 119. Psalm ...’.
The name ‘Der Schwanengesang’ seems to have been given to this group of works, the final compositions of Schütz, almost immediately they were written (see Steude, p. xv). The presence of the composer’s autograph note of dedication at the front of Zweig MS 84 suggests that the set of which it originally formed a part was the presentation copy to the Elector. That set, made up of the vocal books in Dresden and the Zweig organ part, now forms the only source for the whole group of works. Steude’s edition supplies the two vocal parts missing from the Dresden books. The paper on which the books are written, with its distinctive watermark, is from the composer’s own private stock.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945835 - 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 84 : Heinrich Schütz: [‘Schwanengesang’], setting in German of Psalm 119, with Psalm 100 and the German Magnificat (SWV 482-494), for… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0080]/040-001945835
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 28 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697870.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1671
- End Date:
- 1671
- Date Range:
- 1671
- Era:
- CE
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228 x 190mm. ff. 1v, 2v, 27v and 28r and v blank, 23v and 24r-26v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 1 (front free fly-leaf), 1 (inserted title-page), 6, 6, 6, 6, 1 (printed list of contents), 1 (back free fly-leaf). 8-stave paper, total span 216-218mm. Watermark (ff. 3-26 only): drawn bow and arrow, with initials HSC. Bound in quarter parchment, with orange paper-covered boards; label (f. i) lettered ‘ORGANUM’ in ink on upper cover. In blue buckram portfolio lettered ‘SCHUTZ ORGANUM’ on upper cover and spine, and with ‘S.Z.’ at bottom right of upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Removed from Dresden to Guben (now Gubin, Poland), and acquired by Lengfeldsche Buchhandlung from a bookseller there (see Steude, p. xviii); acquired by Zweig from Lengfeldsche Buchhandlung, Cologne, Nov. 1930 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 46); British Library, Loan 77.42 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.42
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library, 1987 (Zweig Series 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_84
- Publications:
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Published: Wolfram Steude (ed.), Heinrich Schütz. Der Schwanengesang (Leipzig: VEB deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1984).
Reproduced: Printed title-page and opening lines of the autograph dedication (f. 5r), British Library Zweig Concert Series programme book 1987, p. 28. The title-page and printed list of contents are also reproduced from the Dresden part-books in Steude, pp. xxii, xxiv. Watermark, reproduced from Dresden books, in Steude, p. 275; ff. 2r, 5r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates LXXXIX-XC.
Bibliography: Werner Bittinger, Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis (Kassel, 1960), pp. 148-151; Steude edition (see Published above), esp. p. 275, where the description of this manuscript includes a full transcription of the dedication statement from f. 5r. Schütz’s dedication and textual additions are also transcribed in a note by Georg Kinsky in Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, vol. xii (Leipzig, 1930), pp. 597-8; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 388.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)