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Zweig MS 97
- Record Id:
- 040-001945849
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000246
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161698159.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 97
- Title:
- Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the top right of f. 1r.
The letter contains Verdi’s ‘well-known outburst ... about the ingratitude and discourtesy of the public’ (Budden, vol. ii), prompted by the fiasco at the first performance in Milan of Simon Boccanegra (the première had taken place in Venice in March 1857), and recalling the treatment of Un giorno di regno, the first of his works to be staged. The letter is printed in the Appendix to the Copialettere, but without the postscript in which Verdi expresses doubt about the quality of the forthcoming performances of his new opera Un Ballo in Maschera, for the preparation of which he was in Rome, and also refers to the printing of the ballet music for Il Trovatore.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945849 - 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 97 : Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0090]/040-001945849
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161698159.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1859
- Date Range:
- 4 Feb 1859
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 207 x 134mm. Structure: originally 2, now separated and joined with a hinge. No watermark.
- Custodial History:
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Sotheby’s, London, 11 May 1959, lot. no. 89 (purchased Eisemann); acquired then or later for the Zweig Collection; British Library, Loan 77.45 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.45
- 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_97
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 2r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CV.
Bibliography: Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi: vol. i, From Oberto to Rigoletto (London, 1973), p. 72 (including partial translation into English), and vol. ii, From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino (London, 1978), p. 254; Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi. A Biography (Oxford, 1993), pp. 382-3 (also with an extract in English translation); Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 390.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)