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Zweig MS 108
- Record Id:
- 040-001945862
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000269
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026331.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 108
- Title:
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Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): draft of overture with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
- Scope & Content:
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Written in ink on systems of two staves. Trial stave rulings on ff. 1v and 2r. Contents as follows:
ff. 1r, 2v, 2r (lower half). Overture. Tempo directions (f. 1r) ‘Maestoso moderato - Allegro maestoso’. Incomplete, consisting of bars 1-74 (f. 1r) and 164-256 (f. 2v, 2r lower portion), using bar nos. in published full score (see Zweig MS 109). The last system of f. 2v is of 3 staves.
ff. 1v, 2r (upper systems). Sketches for incidental music. For three numbers:- march and chorus of priests, ‘Hört der Götter Spruch!’, headed ‘Marcia, moderato’ and with instrumentation indicated for ‘trombe’, ‘Trombone’ and ‘Tamtam’; chorus [?] of boys and young women, ‘Piculos nimm auf blutigem Altar’; chorus of priests ‘Die Flamme sprüht’. The last two are preceded by cues from the text of the play. The numbers 5 added later in pencil at top right of f. 1r, and 39, also in pencil, at bottom of f. 2v.
The incidental music is known only from this manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
037-001945861
040-001945862 - 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 108-109 : Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the…
Zweig MS 108 : Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): draft of overture with sketches for incidental music to the play… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0100]/037-001945861[0001]/040-001945862
- 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_100159026331.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1836
- End Date:
- 1837
- Date Range:
- [1836]-1837
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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355 x 214mm. Structure: 2. Staves individually ruled as follows: f. 1r and v: 22, span 312-20mm.; f. 2r: 18, span approx 285mm.; f. 2v: 19, span 305-10mm. Watermark: two crowns, with ‘TRUTENAU’, ‘1835’.
- 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 77.48 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.48
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_108
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 1v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXIV.
Bibliography: Wilhelm Tappert, ‘Percunos und Lohengrin’, Musikalisches Wochenblatt, vol. 18 (Leipzig, 1887), pp. 413-5, where the complete text of the incidental numbers is transcribed, with music examples; John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 150-4; 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. 393.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)