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Zweig MS 122
- Record Id:
- 040-001945878
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000277
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970584.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 122
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Rienzi’ (WWV 49), grand opera in 5 acts (libretto, the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1837-1840: instructions for staging for the Dresden performances
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in brown ink on both sides of a single leaf, with autograph deletions and additions. Arranged under headings of acts and vocal numbers. Numbered in pencil 160 at the head and 327 at the foot of the recto.
The memorandum in this manuscript is principally concerned with ways of using a small chorus to meet the extensive requirements of the opera. It is perhaps a draft of the document referred to in Wagner’s letters of 7 Sept. 1841 to the Dresden producer Ferdinand Heine and of 4 Oct. 1841 to the chorus-master Wilhelm Fischer (see Gertrud Strobel, Werner Wolf (eds.), Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe (Leipzig, 1967-), vol. i, pp. 510, 530). The first performance of Rienzi took place in Dresden 20 Oct. 1842.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945878 - 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 122 : Richard Wagner: ‘Rienzi’ (WWV 49), grand opera in 5 acts (libretto, the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1837-1840:… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0110]/040-001945878
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970584.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1841
- End Date:
- 1841
- Date Range:
- [1841]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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265 x 177mm. Watermark: chain lines only. Leaf trimmed at all edges.
- 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 77.11 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.11
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Library, 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_122
- Publications:
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Published: Reinhard Strohm (ed.), Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke, vol. xxiii (Mainz, ca.1980 ), pp. 39-41; English translation in Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), pp. 11-13.
Reproduced: recto, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXX.
Bibliography: John Deathridge, Martin Geck, Egon Voss (eds.), Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV). Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen (Mainz, 1986), p. 183; Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 8; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 393.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)