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Zweig MS 98
- Record Id:
- 040-001945850
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000247
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161698168.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 98
- Title:
- Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2 horns, 2 flutes and strings
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante’ (f. 1r); ‘Da Capo’ at end (f. 8v). ‘Wagenseil 761 [line over]’ is written in ink of a darker colour in the upper right margin of f. 1r, and the name ‘Arcid:[ucessa] Joanna’, in a different ink and hand, at the top left. Number in Hinterberger catalogue IX added in pencil in lower margin of f. 1r.
The text of this da capo aria is from Metastasio’s Artaserse, Act III, scene vii, for the character Semira. No complete setting of the opera by Wagenseil is recorded in the work lists in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart or The New Grove. Wagenseil was appointed ‘Hofklaviermeister’ to the young Austrian archduchesses in 1745; the Archduchess Johanna Gabriele, born 1750, died in 1762 (J. Alexander Mahan, Maria Theresa of Austria, London, 1932, p. 305). Zweig’s other Wagenseil aria, ‘Io so qual pena sia quella d’un cor geloso’, offered for sale in the same Hinterberger catalogues as this manuscript, was written for Johanna Gabriele in 1760.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945850 - 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 98 : Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0091]/040-001945850
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (8 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161698168.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1761
- End Date:
- 1761
- Date Range:
- 1761
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 225 x 320mm. Structure: 4, 4. 10-stave paper, span 185mm. Watermark: three crescent moons. Sewn.
- Custodial History:
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Date of acquisition by Zweig not known; the second of the two Wagenseil manuscripts offered for sale through Hinterberger, Vienna, cats. IX (nos. 288, 299), 18 (nos. 244, 245) and XX (together as 553); not sold, returned to the Collection; British Library, Loan 77.62 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.62
- 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_98
- Publications:
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Reproduced: Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CVI.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 391.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)