Zweig MS 91

Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro molto’ (f. 2r). Signed at upper right of f. 2r; dated Kissingen, 13 May 1934 (f. 33v). Additions in brown ink occupy two single inserted folios (ff. 1, 34) bound at the front and rear of the volume as well as part of the final page of the last gathering, as noted below. In addition to the blue-black ink found throughout, ff. 26v, 28v-33r are written partly or entirely in blue ink. As follows: ff. 2r-3v. [Introduction]. ff. 3v-4r. Scene I. A sign (f. 4r) indicates a repeat of the ending of the introduction at two bars after cue no. 13 in the published vocal score. ff. 5r-5v. Scene II. ff. 5v-10r. Scene III. ff. 10r-13r. Scene IV. ff. 13r-13v. Scene V. ff. 13v-15v. [Scene VI.]. ff. 15v-17r. Scene VII. One bar struck through in ink on f. 15v. ff. 17r-19v. [Scene VII.]. ff. 19v-26v. [Scene IX.] One bar struck through in ink on f. 24r. Additional material sketched in pencil on f. 20v. ff. 26v-33v, f. 1r. ‘Finale’. Additional stave drawn freehand in the lower margin of f. 31v to accommodate orchestral part. There are minor variants from the final version at a number of points, and on f. 1r is a revised version marked ‘Einlage zu Seite 62’ of 14 bars from f. 32v (cue nos. 113+5-115 in the published vocal score); the passage is marked for insertion on f. 32v in the same brown ink in which it is written. Variant sketch of vocal line in pencil at foot of f. 29v. ff. 33v, 34v. [Last scene.] Revised from the draft written at the end of Act II (Zweig MS 90, ff. 42v, 43r), and with pencil annotations relating the version here to the full score. Before these additions were made f. 33v. ended with the first bar of this concluding ‘Molto Moderato’ followed by the note ‘Schluss siehe II Akt’.