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Zweig MS 121
- Record Id:
- 040-001945877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000276
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970577.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 121
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Notes and drafts, comprising translation into French of prose sketch for the opera ‘Die hohe Braut’, translations into French of text of three numbers from the opera ‘Der fliegende Holländer’, and notes on the ‘cornet à 3 pistons’
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. As follows:
ff. 1r, 3r and v. ‘Die hohe Braut’ (WWV 40), opera in 5 acts (libretto Wagner after Heinrich Koenig), [1835-1842]: translation of prose sketch; 1840. French. Written in brown ink, with autograph corrections and additions.
ff. 2r, 1v. ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto Wagner), 1840-1841: translation of text of Senta’s ballad (f. 2r), chorus of Scottish/Norwegian sailors (f. 2r), chorus of the Dutchman’s crew (f. 1v); with French parodies of the first two (f. 1v). French. Written in brown ink, with autograph corrections and additions.
Also on f. 1v ‘Minna Wagner Paris d. 11 September porter[?] 1840’, pen flourishes, and in a fine italic hand ‘Minna Wagner née Planer Richard Wagner’.
f. 2v. ‘cornet à 3 pistons’, notes for a projected tutor for the instrument. Mostly German. Written in brown ink, sideways on the page, in the first of four columns marked by pencil lines.
Numbered 116 (f. 1r), 117 (f. 2r) and 152 (f. 3r) in ink over pencil in a hand which can 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.
Wagner seems never to have written any music for ‘Die hohe Braut’ and, with his encouragement, the libretto was eventually set by Johann Friedrich Kittl as ‘Bianca und Giuseppe, oder: Die Franzosen vor Nizza’, first performed in Prague in 1848 (see Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis, p. 149).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945877 - 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 121 : Richard Wagner: Notes and drafts, comprising translation into French of prose sketch for the opera ‘Die hohe Braut’,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0109]/040-001945877
- 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_100158970577.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1840
- Date Range:
- 1840
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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362 x 233. Structure: 2, 1. Watermark: ‘G D’ in italic characters.
- 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 77.7 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.7
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_121
- Publications:
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Published: Prose sketch: complete transcription with commentary and English translation, [Stewart Spencer], ‘Die hohe Braut’: an unpublished sketch’, Wagner, journal of the Wagner Society, new series (London, 1983), vol. iv, pp. 13-26. Senta’s ballad: transcription with commentary, in Stewart Spencer, ‘Some notes on ‘Der fliegende Holländer’’, Wagner, journal of the Wagner Society, new series (London, 1982), vol. iii, pp. 82-4.
Reproduced: All folios, Wagner, journal of the Wagner Society, new series (London, 1983), vol. iv, pp. 16-21; f. 1v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXIX.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), pp. 147, 225; Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 7; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 393. Final version of libretto for ‘Die hohe Braut’: Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Schriften und Dichtungen, vol. xi (Leipzig, [1912]), pp. 136-77.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)