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Zweig MS 117
- Record Id:
- 040-001945872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000272
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970538.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 117
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Act III
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 18 (f. 1r) and 20 staves (f. 1v). Headed ‘Schluss des dritten Actes’, and with extensive instructions for the copyist relating this score to the autograph full score and to Zweig MS 116. At the end (f. 1v) are detailed stage directions for the new ending.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
037-001945869
040-001945872 - 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 117 : Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Act III - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0106]/037-001945869[0003]/040-001945872
- 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_100158970538.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- [1860]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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332 x 250mm. ff. 2r and v printed with staves but otherwise blank. Wagner’s pagination [1]-2. 21-stave paper, span 293mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. No watermark.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired by Zweig with Zweig MS 116; British Library, Loan 77.6 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.6
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_117
- Publications:
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Published: Transcription and translation into English of the stage directions on f. 1v, Stewart Spencer: ‘The Stefan Zweig collection’ in Wagner, vol. viii (1987), pp. 6-7.
Reproduced: f. 1r, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction cat. 63, frontispiece; f. 1v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXIV.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), pp. 394-395.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)