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Zweig MS 126
- Record Id:
- 040-001945882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00027b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970599.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 126
- Title:
- Carl Maria von Weber: Incidental music to ‘Preciosa’ (play by P.A. Wolff): no. 7, song ‘Einsam bin ich nicht alleine’, for voice [and guitar]
- Scope & Content:
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Not autograph; in an unidentified hand. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. In D major in 6/8 time; tempo marking ‘larghetto’. On the verso are unidentified verses, headed ‘Sängers [?] Abendlied’, with two lines of music, one above [guitar accompaniment?] and one below [apparently melody]. The music on the verso is in G major, 3/8 time, and apparently written in the same hand as the recto.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945882 - 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 126 : Carl Maria von Weber: Incidental music to ‘Preciosa’ (play by P.A. Wolff): no. 7, song ‘Einsam bin ich nicht alleine’, for… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0114]/040-001945882
- 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_100158970599.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1820
- End Date:
- 1820
- Date Range:
- 1820
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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165 x 206mm. Recto: 10 individually ruled staves, total span 139mm.Watermark: lower part of a shield with bars and a bendlet over all, surrounded by a garland.
- Custodial History:
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Purchased by Zweig from Heinrich Eisemann, 31 May 1939 (Add. MS 73173, ff. 147-8).
- Information About Copies:
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Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_126
- Publications:
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Reproduced: Recto, British Library Zweig Concert Series programme book, 13 June 1989, p. 7; Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXXIV.
Bibliography: Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 396.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Baron, composer, 1786-1826
Wolff, Pius Alexander, dramatist, 1782-1828