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Zweig MS 132
- Record Id:
- 040-001945889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0002a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139609057.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 132
- Title:
- Hans Christian Andersen: Poem 'Fest-Sang til Landsoldaten' (1851)
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Poem of four stanzas celebrating the return of soldiers from the First Schleswig-Holstein War. Heading 'Fest-Sang til Landsoldaten' (underlined). ‘Mel. Dengang jeg drog afsted’.
Begins: 'Dengang Du drog afsted'
Ends: ‘Hurra, Hurra, Hurra’
Stanzas 1, 2 and 4 consist of 10 lines and Stanza 3 of 11 lines, including the refrain. The symbol :/: appears at both ends of the first lines of Stanzas 1, 2 and 4. Stanza 2, line 2, Stanza 3, line 3 and Stanza 4, line 2 are emphasised by repetition preceded by the word ‘Ja’. Some words are underlined in the manuscript (for spacing in print). Signed at end 'H. C. Andersen'.
Andersen’s verses were modelled on a song with the title ‘Dengang jeg drog af sted’ by Peter Christian Frederik Faber (b.1810, d.1877), which had been written to celebrate the Danish victory at Battle of Bov on 9 April 1848. Faber’s work was set to an existing march tune by the Danish composer Emil Hornemann (b.1809, d.1870), and the same setting is indicated in the heading for Andersen’s poem. Soldiers returning from war were often presented with patriotic songbooks, to which Andersen was a contributor, as well as participating in homecoming celebrations (see for example his diary for 9-12 February 1851 on the triumphal entry into Copenhagen).
The festival at Glorup with which this poem is associated took place at the end of the First Schleswig-Holstein War on 7 July 1851, marking the anniversary of the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia on 6 July 1849. Glorup Castle was home of Gebhard and Adam Gottlob Moltke-Hvidtfeldt with whom Andersen often stayed. On this occasion, Andersen himself organised the outdoor event for some 400 people with a triumphal arch, tent and decorations (for the preparations see C. Behrend and H. Topsøe-Jensen (eds.), H C Andersens Brevveksling med Edvard og Henriette Collin (Copenhagen, 1933-1937). Vol. II, pp. 204-219 passim).
Andersen’s diary for 7 July 1851 (http://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk/?page_id=4817) describes the feast where he recited his poem to great acclaim – ' jeg sagde som Digt min Vise til Landsoldaten . . . og jeg fik et skingrende Hurra'. The scene is also captured in a letter to Henriette Wulff on 15 July (H. C. Andersen og Henriette Wulff. En Brevveksling, 1959. Vol. II, pp. 81-83).
Zweig also owned the poem ‘Was ich liebe’ (Andersen's own translation of ‘Hvad jeg elsker’ with signature), acquired in 1909 from Boerner of Leipzig and now at the Bodmer Foundation, Geneva.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945888
040-001945889 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 132-200 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 132 : Hans Christian Andersen: Poem 'Fest-Sang til Landsoldaten' (1851) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0002]/036-001945888[0001]/040-001945889
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100139609057.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Danish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1851
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- [1851]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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272 x 212 mm.
f. 1.
Written in black ink on both sides of a single leaf of pink wove paper, stanzas 1 and 2 on the recto and stanzas 3 and 4 on the verso.
No watermark.
- Custodial History:
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Purchased by Zweig from Heinrich Eisemann, London, 29 May 1940 (receipted invoice, Add. MS 73174, f. 2, and list of purchases f. 17). A cutting from a sale catalogue at Add MS 73174, f. 1 attached to the Eisemann invoice describes an autograph letter from Andersen to Miss Henriette Wulff enclosing a poem of four 10- line stanzas but this is not the present poem (see the letter of 4 August 1829 in H. Topsøe-Jensen (ed.), H. C. Andersen og Henriette Wulff. En Brevveksling. Odense: Flensteds Forlag, 1959. Vol. I, pp. 72-74).
- Publications:
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First published in Folkekalender for Danmark (Copenhagen: Lose & Delbanco, 1852), pp. 55-56. With same heading and text as Zweig MS 132.
H. C. Andersen, Samlede Skrifter, vol. 12 (2nd ed. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1879), pp. 344-345. Title and note as Collin MS 58. The repeated lines are omitted and there are minor variants in capitalisation.
Johan de Mylius (ed.), H. C. Andersen. Samlede digte (Copenhagen: Aschehoug, 2000), p. 548. [A version in modern Danish. No copy is available in the British Library for comparison].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)