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Zweig MS 128
- Record Id:
- 040-001945884
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00027d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970629.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 128
- Title:
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Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6, [1909]: fair copy made by the composer for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of between five and 32 staves. Bar lines ruled in pencil, with corrections, additions and marginal notes in pencil. The pieces occupy the following folios:
ff. 1-2v. I.; tempo direction ‘Etwas bewegte Achtel’. Unpitched rhythmic sketches in pencil in lower margin of f. 1v.
ff. 3r-6r. II.; ‘Bewegt ([quaver])’. Unpitched rhythmic sketches in pencil in lower margin of f. 4r; written comment in pencil in lower and right margins of f. 5r and lower margin of 5v.
ff. 7v-8r. III.; ‘Zart bewegt ([quaver])’.
ff. 8v-11r. IV.; ‘Langsam ([crotchet]) marcia funebre’. Comment in pencil added in lower margin of f. 9r.
ff. 11v-13v, 14. V.; ‘Sehr langsam (quaver])’. Comment in pencil in lower margin of f. 12v partially erased.
ff. 15-17r. VI.; ‘Zart bewegt’. The cover (f. i) has Webern’s title ‘Anton von Webern / Sechs Stücke / für / Orchester / op. 4’, the opus number added in pencil; ‘Anton von Webern op. 4’ also appears at the head of the first page of music (f. 1r). The recto of the front fly-leaf (f. ii) carries Webern’s dedication ‘Arnold Schönberg / meinem Lehrer / in höchster Liebe’. The numbers ‘I’ and ‘II’ in pencil on f. 17v, printed with staves but otherwise blank, appear also to be in Webern’s hand. The marginal comments or queries on ff. 5r, 5v, 9r and 12v are in a hand other than that of the composer. Cue numbers have been added in blue crayon in each piece, and all except no. II also have markings in red crayon, mostly relating to phrasing.
This manuscript is closer to the publication of 1913 than to the (presumably earlier) autograph full score now in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, notably in layout and in tempo directions; it has only a single pastedown, compared to the Vienna autograph’s 21. There seems little reason to doubt that the Zweig manuscript is the copy, ‘sauber abgeschrieben’, about which Webern wrote to Schoenberg on 31 May 1911 (Ernst Hilmar, ‘Dokumente zur Entstehungs- und Aufführungsgeschichte der Orchesterstücke op. 6’, in 1983 facsimile publication, Commentary volume, p. 12), even though in February 1912 it could not be found in Schoenberg’s house (Moldenhauer). The cue markings and other annotations suggest that it was used in some way in connection with the first performance, conducted by Schoenberg, on 31 March 1913.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945884 - 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 128 : Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6, [1909]: fair copy made by the composer for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0116]/040-001945884
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 17 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970629.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1911
- End Date:
- 1911
- Date Range:
- [1911]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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350 x 270mm. ff. 6v pasted to 7r; 14 a paste-down on 13r; 17v printed with staves and annotated as noted above but otherwise blank. Paginated 1-28 by Webern. Structure: 1 + 1 (joined at gutter with a narrow blank strip), 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 + 1 (joined as first two folios); the cut halves (presumably once joined) of a further blank strip are pasted at the gutter edges of 1r and 17v. 32 stave paper, span 314mm.; printed, without printer’s mark. Watermark: a lyre. Sewn into a grey card cover, the gutter strengthened with a strip of stiff white paper, with unruled free fly-leaves at front (f. ii) and back (blank, unfoliated). Over the cover is a sleeve of translucent waxed paper (f. i) bearing the title as described above.
- Custodial History:
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Given by Webern to Schoenberg, [May-June 1911]; Schoenberg and his heirs, Los Angeles; acquired for the Zweig Collection with Zweig MSS 17 and 77, Dec. 1960; British Library, Loan 77.50 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.50
- Administrative Context:
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Exhibited: British Library 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); British Library, 2007-2008 (Breaking the Rules: the Printed Face of the European Avant-garde).
- 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_128
- Publications:
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Published: Vienna: ‘Im Selbstverlag des Komponisten’, [1913], as ‘Sechs Stücke für grosses Orchester von Anton von Webern op. 4’, with the dedication reading ‘Arnold Schönberg, meinem Lehrer und Freunde in höchster Liebe’ (reproduced from a fair copy, calligraphically written by the composer); revised version, in reduced orchestration prepared by the composer in 1928, Vienna: Universal Edition, 1956.
Reproduced: Lower portion of f. 9r, Arthur Searle, Music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1987), p. 68; f. 1v, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plate CXXVI.
Bibliography: Hans Moldenhauer, Anton von Webern. A Chronicle of his Life and Work (London, 1978), p. 656; Anton v. Webern. Sechs Stücke für grosses Orchester Opus 6 (Vienna: Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, 1983), facsimile of the Vienna autograph score and of the composer’s corrected copy of the first published edition, with introduction and notes by Claudio Abbado and others.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)