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Zweig MS 109
- Record Id:
- 040-001945863
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00026a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026337.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 109
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): full score
- Scope & Content:
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Written in ink; on systems of 22 staves throughout, with the exception of f. 2r, where the ophicleide part is written separately from the bass trombone, requiring 23 staves. Tempo directions ‘Maestoso e moderato (f. 1r) - Allegro maestoso (f. 4r) - Piu vivace (f. 14v) - Maestoso’ (f. 19v). Headed ‘Rule Britannia. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r), the title ‘Rule Britannia’ repeated again, beneath the note ‘Hier fällt die Militärmusik ein.’ on f. 19v. Signed and dated at the end ‘Richard Wagner, den 15ten März 1837: Königsberg in Preussen’ (f. 21r). The stamp of ‘Cyrus Gamble, Pianoforte and Music Warehouse, Walford St., Leicester’ has been added on f. 21v.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
037-001945861
040-001945863 - 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 109 : Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): full score - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0100]/037-001945861[0002]/040-001945863
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (21 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100159026337.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1837
- End Date:
- 1837
- Date Range:
- 1837
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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340 x 245mm. f. 21v blank except for later stamp. Later pagination added in ink. Structure: some original bifolia apparently separated, giving 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. Staves individually ruled: all 22 staves, span 265-78mm., except for f. 2r with 23 staves, span 280mm. No watermark.
- Custodial History:
- Sent by Wagner to Sir George Smart in London, 1837; sent to Wagner in Paris by Philharmonic Society of London, 1840; carriage not paid on delivery, presumed returned to England; purchased by Cyrus Gamble, Leicester, from executors of Evan William Thomas (died 1892); offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch, London, cats. 380 (Dec. 1923) and 429 (1929); purchased by Zweig from Quaritch, London, 1932 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 52, gives no date, but the copy of the card, Add. MS 73169, f. 74, has his annotation ‘cca 1932’); British Library, Loan 77.49 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.49
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: London, National Book League, 1956 (England: Her Friends and Visitors); British Library, 1978 (Thomas Augustine Arne), and 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); 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_109
- Publications:
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Published: Egon Voss (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/II, Orchesterwerke (1997), pp. 139-202; in Felix Mottl (ed.), Richard Wagner. Vier Ouvertüren für Orchester (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907).
Reproduced: ff. 1r and 21r, The Morning Leader, London, 18 May 1904; Mitteilungen, pp. 3724-5; Illustrirte Zeitung, Leipzig, 13 February 1908, p. 239 (see Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis); f. 1r, Erich W. Engel, Richard Wagners Leben und Werke im Bilde (Vienna, 1913), p. 61; Barry Millington, The Master Musicians. Wagner (London, 1984), pl. 4; British Library Zweig Concert Series programme book 1996, p. 7; detail (upper part only), exhibition leaflet 75 Musical and Literary Autographs from the Stefan Zweig Collection (London, 1986); f. 21r, Quaritch, London, cat. 380, Dec. 1923, no. 203 and cat. 429, 1929, no. 190; ff. 1r, 19v, 21r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates CXV-CXVII.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 152-154; Otto Taubmann, ‘Richard Wagner, Vier Ouvertüren’, in Mitteilungen der Musikalienhandlung Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig, Nov. 1907), pp. 3722-6; Stewart Spencer, ‘Wagner Autographs in London’, in Wagner, vol. iv (1983), pp. 99-101; Wagner viii, p. 10; Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 18/II, pp. XI, XXIII, XXX-XXXII (documentation of composition, first performance of work and later history of manuscript, including correspondence and relevant extracts from Wagner’s Mein Leben), pp. 360-6; Mein Leben, trans. Andrew Gray and ed. Mary Whittall, as Richard Wagner, My Life (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 134, 143, 166, 183. See also: James D. Brown and Stephen S. Stratton, British Musical Biography (Birmingham, 1897), p. 409; Robert Elkin, Royal Philharmonic (London, [1946]), pp. 39-40.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)