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Zweig MS 116
- Record Id:
- 040-001945871
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000271
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970533.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 116
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Overture
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 18 and 19 (f. 4r and v) staves. Headed ‘Zum fliegender Holländer Schluss der Ouvertüre (pag: 42 der autographirten Partitur nach der _ [underlined pause sign])’, with further references to pp. 42 and 43 of the original full score at top left and above the music (f. 1r). Cue letters added in pencil.
This manuscript was sent with Zweig MS 117 to Adolf Julius Rühlemann, in Dresden, for the preparation of copies, 16 March 1860 (see Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis, p. 231).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
037-001945869
040-001945871 - 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 115-117 : Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’…
Zweig MS 116 : Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Overture - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0106]/037-001945869[0002]/040-001945871
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (6 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970533.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- [1860]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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332 x 250mm. f. 6v printed with staves but otherwise blank. Wagner’s pagination 1-11. Structure: 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, with sewing holes in gutter of ff. 3-4 suggesting an original sewn gathering of 6. 21-stave paper, span 293mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. No watermark.
- Custodial History:
- Purchased by Zweig at Leo Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction no. 63, 9 Dec. 1932, lot no. 185, comprising Zweig MSS 116 and 117 together (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f. 53, has the year struck through, altered to 1922 in blue crayon, with 1932 written beneath this by Zweig); British Library, Loan 77.6 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.6
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs) and 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_116
- Publications:
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Published: Dresden: C. F. Meser (Hermann Müller), [1861].
Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXIII.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 394.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, composer, 1813-1883,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779084 - Related Material:
- Autograph full score, where the overture is paginated 1-50 (Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis, p. 229), and score of this revised ending, though with two harps rather than one (see Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis, p. 231), both in Bayreuth, Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung; short score of revised ending: Stargardt sale catalogue, 16 June 2010, lot 808.