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Zweig MS 104
- Record Id:
- 040-001945857
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000265
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026296.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 104
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ or ‘Die Novize von Palermo’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto by the composer, after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-6: incomplete draft of Overture, sketches for nos. 6, 7 and 11, and unidentified sketches
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph short score. Written mostly in ink on one stave or systems of two staves, partly in pencil (f. 3v), and with annotations in red ink (f. 2r, v). Trial stave rulings in lower margin of f. 1r. The identifiable sketches, using cue numbers from the published full score, are as follows:
ff. 1r-2v. ‘No: 1. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r). Incomplete continuous draft, on systems of two staves; tempo directions ‘Molto vivace - Allo con fuoco (f. 1r) - Presto’ (f. 2v). The section of the Presto included (80 bars, with repeats marked) runs to the end of f. 2v.
ff. 5r, 6v. [No. 6, Finale to Act I, aria for Isabella], from 4 bars after cue no. 15 - cue 19 in the published full score. Mostly vocal line only, with text, a small portion with accompaniment on a second stave. Written using the paper different ways up and in sections on each page, the order indicated by later numbering in pencil. See Zweig MS 105 for a modern transcription.
f. 4r. [No. 6, Finale to Act I, duet for Isabella and Friedrich and ensemble], cue 33 - 8 bars before cue 36 in published score. On two staves, mostly with text.
ff. 3r and v. [No. 6, Finale to Act I, ensemble], cue 42 - cue 54. All on two staves, without text.
f. 4v (lower half). [No. 7, duet for Claudio and Isabella]. Fragmentary sketches, almost all on one stave, the second texted: cue 5 - 4 bars before cue 7, cue 9 - cue 10, 5 bars at 33 bars after cue 13.
f. 5r (centre). [No. 11, Finale to Act II]: brief sketch on a single line, headed ‘2: Final’.
The folios (in their present order) are numbered in a later hand in ink over pencil 197, 198, 170, 171, 166, 167. In addition, f.1 has the number 21 in pencil at top left [cf. no. 20 added to Zweig MS 101], and 166 in pencil is written upside down in the lower margin of f. 6v. The different sections of music on ff. 5r, 6v are numbered in pencil (see above). For the autograph libretto see Zweig MSS 119, 120.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945857 - 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 104 : Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ or ‘Die Novize von Palermo’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto by the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0096]/040-001945857
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (6 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100159026296.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1835
- End Date:
- 1835
- Date Range:
- [1835]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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330 x 250mm. (ff. 1-4) and 355 x 220mm. (ff. 5, 6). f. 5v ruled with staves but otherwise blank, 6r with sketches on the top 3 staves only. Structure: 2, 2, 2. Staves individually ruled (grouped in pairs on ff. 1r-2v) as follows:- f. 1r: 22, with span between 281-290mm.; ff. 1v-2v: 24, 298-304mm.; f.3r and v: 26, 298-304mm.; f. 4r: 24, 284-5mm.; f. 4v: 25, 295-8mm; ff. 5 and 6 regularly ruled, apparently with a rastrum, with 15 staves, span 296mm. No watermark in either paper. Kept in blue cloth-covered portfolio, lettered ‘WAGNER’ on the spine and ‘WAGNER’ and ‘S.Z.’ on the upper cover, with Zweig MSS 105-112.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired from Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna, 1937 with Zweig MSS. 99-108, 110-114, 118-22, 124-5 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 51; see also Add. MS 73173, ff. 1-71); British Library, Loan 77.47 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.47
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); Christie’s, London, then Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Musiksammlung), Vienna, 1987-8 (Creative Spririt in the 19th Century); British Library, 2007-2008 (Wagner in London).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_104
- Publications:
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Published: Full score, Michael Balling (ed.), Richard Wagners Werke, vol. XIV, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1923.
Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXII.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 131-143; : Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 10; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 392.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)