Zweig MS 113

Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of four and five staves. Where the flute part is not written out separately the top line of the system is designated ‘Fl: ou 1er V.’ On a single leaf, paginated 43, 44. Against the beginning of the music (f. 1r) is written ‘No: 13. / Duo et Final. / Oui, dès ce moment.’, though the arrangement includes only the duet, the finale perhaps having been written on another leaf. Tempo direction ‘Andantino appassionato.’. Numbering of bars, signs and a marginal note, all in red ink, indicate a repeat. Title in red struck through and completely obscured. Pencil annotations throughout appear to be the engraver’s markings for the Paris first edition. In the upper margin of the verso, in another hand is ‘Notenhandschrift de. Richard Wagner zu Dresden [?] erhalten v. seinem Freund Rietz in Paris am 12ten März 1848’, with below this in pencil ‘Peter Cavallo [?] Paris Aug. 1856’.

The title on the related manuscripts in Bayreuth, as well as the published edition, gives the instrumentation as first violin or flute, second violin, viola and ‘cello. In the notes prepared by Hinterberger at the time of Zweig’s acquisition of the group of Wagner manuscripts (see Custodial history) this item is associated with Zweig MS 112.