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Zweig MS 118
- Record Id:
- 040-001945873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000273
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970544.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 118
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Die Feen’ (WWV 32), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Carlo Goldoni), 1833-4: draft of dialogue
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in brown ink, with corrections and additions also in autograph. Headed ‘Feen: Dialoge’ (f. 1r). The scenes are Act I, sc. 2 and 4 (ff. 1-3v), Act II, sc. 3 (ff. 3v-4v), and Act III, sc. 5, incomplete (f. 4v). Lacking Act III, sc. 3 of those scenes with dialogue. The leaves are numbered in ink over pencil 18, 19, 100, 101 in a hand which can with certainty be identified as the same which also appears on Zweig MSS 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 110, 118, 119, 121, and 125; numbers added to Zweig MSS 102, 112, 120 and 122 may also possibly be in this same hand. It appears to be a numbering of an unordered group of manuscripts, added perhaps by an early owner; its occurrence on other autographs of the period is noted in Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (pp. 72 etc.), and discussed in Egon Voss, ‘Wagners fragmentarisches Orchesterwerk in e-moll - die früheste der erhaltenen Kompositionen?’, Die Musikforschung, vol. xxiii (1970), pp. 50-54.
The dialogue was intended by Wagner as a substitute for the recitative in Acts I and II, and as an addition in Act III (see Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis). The concluding dialogue for Act III, sc. 5 was presumably on an additional leaf now lost.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945873 - 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 118 : Richard Wagner: ‘Die Feen’ (WWV 32), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Carlo Goldoni), 1833-4: draft of dialogue - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0107]/040-001945873
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970544.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1834
- End Date:
- 1834
- Date Range:
- [1834]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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232 x 161mm. Structure: 2, 2. No watermark, ff. 1, 2; chain lines only, ff. 2, 3.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired by Zweig 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 77.46 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.46
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_118
- Publications:
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Published: Critical edition of the opera in preparation, Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, 23.
Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXV.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), p. 114; Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 10; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 392.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)