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Zweig MS 123
- Record Id:
- 040-001945879
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000278
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970588.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 123
- Title:
- Richard Wagner (1813-1833): Letter to [C.F.] Peters, Bureau de Musique, Leipzig; Leipzig, 6 August 1831
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph. Written in brown ink. Text on f. 1r; address, to ‘Herrn Herr Peter’s (Bureu [sic] de Musique)’, f. 2v. Dated by Wagner at head of f. 1r, and signed ‘Richard Wagner stud: mus:’. Fragment of seal attached to upper edge of f. 2v. Annotated by the recipient (f. 2v) in ink; later annotations in German describing the letter, added in pencil at head of f. 1r.
In this, one the earliest of his letters to survive, Wagner offers his services as an arranger to Peters. The text is substantially that published in Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945879 - 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 123 : Richard Wagner (1813-1833): Letter to [C.F.] Peters, Bureau de Musique, Leipzig; Leipzig, 6 August 1831 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0111]/040-001945879
- 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_100158970588.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1831
- End Date:
- 1831
- Date Range:
- 1831
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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274 x 230mm. ff. 1v and 2r blank. Structure: 2. Watermark: ‘J WHATMAN’.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired by Zweig through Heinrich Eisemann, London, Oct. 1939 (Add. MS 73167, f. 54); British Library, Loan 77.13 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.13
- 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_123
- Publications:
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Published: W. Tappert, Richard Wagner, sein Leben und seine Werke (Elberfeld, 1883), pp. 5-6; Gertrud Strobel, Werner Wolf (eds.), Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe (Leipzig, 1967- ), vol. i, pp. 118-9, from copy in Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth.
Reproduced: f. 1r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXXI.
Bibliography: Stewart Spencer, ‘The Stefan Zweig Collection’, in Wagner, Journal of the Wagner Society, vol. viii (London, 1987), p. 9; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 395.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)