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Zweig MS 93
- Record Id:
- 040-001945845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000242
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189343204.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 93
- Title:
- Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second viola part is also not entered. Tempo direction ‘[crotchet] = 60 - Berceuse’. Signed and dated ‘Igor Stravinsky 2-XII 1910 Beaulieu s/m’ at bottom right. First performance of the ballet, Paris, 25 June, 1910. Number from Hinterberger catalogue IX added later in pencil at the bottom left.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945845 - 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 93 : Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0086]/040-001945845
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1910
- End Date:
- 1910
- Date Range:
- 2 Dec 1910
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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261 x 289mm. Verso printed with staves but otherwise blank. 20-stave paper, span 222mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. No watermark. The leaf trimmed, affecting staves, at right-hand edge.
- Custodial History:
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Date of acquisition by Zweig not known; offered for sale through Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, cats. IX [1936] no. 295, 18 [1937] no. 231, and XX [1937] no. 530; not sold and retained in the Collection.
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010-2011 (Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes).
- Publications:
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Published: Moscow: Jurgensen, 1911 (reissued in reproduction, New York: Broude Bros., circa 1950).
Reproduced: Hinterberger, cat. IX, pl. 57; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate C.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 390.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fokine, Michel, choreographer and dancer, 1880-1942
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich, composer, 1882-1971,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121224298,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17309155