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Zweig MS 106
- Record Id:
- 040-001945859
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000267
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026315.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 106
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Overture in C, ‘Polonia’ (WWV 39), 1836: piano reduction, with sketch for song ‘Les adieux de Marie Stuart’ (words J.P. de Béranger) for voice and piano (WWV 61); [early 1840]
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. As follows: ff. 1r-4r. Overture, headed ‘Polonia. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r); tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Tempo 1mo (f. 1r) - Allegretto - Allo: molto vivace (f. 1v) - Allegretto (f. 3v) - Presto’ (f. 4r). Copying instructions for bars or sections to be repeated are given in French. f. 4v. Song. Draft of bars 1-77 only; on two staves with full text and vocal line, and outline accompaniment. Folios numbered in a later hand in ink over pencil 180, 181, 178, 179 (see below); 325 added in pencil at foot of f. 1r.
Wagner made a number of minor revisions to the ‘Polonia’ Overture; the piano reduction in Zweig MS 106 represents the revised form, but with further changes (see Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/II, pp. 373-4). Mottl’s piano arrangement is quite different from that in this manuscript. The numbering of the leaves is in a hand which can with certainty be identified as that which also appears on Zweig MSS 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 110, 118, 119, 121, and 125; numbers added to Zweig MSS 102, 112, 120 and 122 may also possibly be in this same hand.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945859 - 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 106 : Richard Wagner: Overture in C, ‘Polonia’ (WWV 39), 1836: piano reduction, with sketch for song ‘Les adieux de Marie… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0098]/040-001945859
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100159026315.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1840
- Date Range:
- 1840
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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353 x 270mm. Structure: 2, 2. Staves individually ruled:- ff. 1r-2v: 16, grouped in pairs, span 290-310mm.; f. 3r and v: 26, span 320-330mm.; f. 4r and v: 25, span 310-316mm. Watermark: ‘D & C BLAUW’.
- 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 77.10 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.10
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_106
- Publications:
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Published: Piano reduction of Overture: Egon Voss (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/II, Orchesterwerke (Mainz: Schott Musik International, 1997), pp. 314-324. Full score of first version of Overture: Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/I, pp. 55-138; full score and piano arrangement (by Felix Mottl), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1908. Song: Egon Voss (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 17, Klavierlieder (1976), pp. 52-61 (from Bayreuth and Stanford autograph fair copies).
Reproduced: f. 4r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXIII.
Bibliography: Egon Voss (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 17, Klavierlieder (1976), 17, p. XI (for documentation of composition of song); John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 143-146, 212-3; Egon Voss (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/II, Orchesterwerke (Mainz: Schott Musik International, 1997), pp. XXVII-XXIX (for documentation of composition and performance of Overture), 340, 373-4; Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 8; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 393.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)