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Zweig MS 112
- Record Id:
- 040-001945866
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00026d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159026374.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 112
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Descendons gaiement la courtille’ (text Dumersan?) (WWV 65), chorus for insertion in the vaudeville La descente de la courtille by Marion Dumersan and Dupeutys
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Draft in piano vocal score. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Two-part chorus, written on a single stave labelled ‘Choeur.’ against the first system on f. 1r, the other two staves designated ‘Orchestre.’. Indications of orchestration are also given in this system. Tempo direction ‘Très vive’. With annotations in pencil throughout. Trial staves occur at the foot of f. 3v. The numbers 32, 31 are added in pencil in the upper margins of ff. 1v and 2v.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945866 - 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 112 : Richard Wagner: ‘Descendons gaiement la courtille’ (text Dumersan?) (WWV 65), chorus for insertion in the vaudeville La descente… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0103]/040-001945866
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (3 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100159026374.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1842
- Date Range:
- [1841?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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310 x 240mm. f. 3v ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Structure: 2, 1. Staves ruled individually, as follows: f. 1r: 16 staves, span 283-5mm.; ff. 1v, 2r and v: 17, span 275-85mm.; f. 3r: 15, span approx. 275mm.; f. 3v: 14, span approx. 252mm. No watermark.
- 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 77.4 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.4
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_112
- Publications:
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Published: Full score, in Michael Balling, (ed.), Richard Wagners Werke, vol. xvi: Chorgesänge (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1913), pp. 124-47 (from Bayreuth full score).
Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXIX.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 242-4; Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 5; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 394.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)