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Zweig MS 211
- Record Id:
- 040-001947531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x000038
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970777.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 211
- Title:
- Announcement of Beethoven's death in the form of an invitation to his funeral
- Scope & Content:
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[27 March 1827]. Printed. Printed on thin paper. Invitation reads: 'Einladung / zu / Ludwig van Beethoven's / Leichenbegängniss, / welches am 29. März um 3 Uhr Nachmittags Statt finden wird. / Man versammelt sich in der Wohnung des Verstorbenen im Schwarzspanier-hause Nr. 200, / am Glacis vor dem Schottenthore. / Der Zug begibt sich von da nach der Dreyfaltigkeits-Kirche / bey den P.P. Minoriten in der Alsergasse. / Die musikalische Welt erlitt den unersetzlichen Verlust des berühmten Tondichters am 26. Marz 1827 Abends gegen 6 Uhr. / Beethoven starb an den Folgen der Wassersucht, im 56. Jahre seines Alters, / nach empfangenen heil. Sacramenten. / Der Tag der Exequien wird nachträglich bekannt gemacht von / L. van Beethoven's / Verehrern und Freunden. (Diese Karte wird in Tob. Haslingers Musikhandlung vertheilt.) Gedruckt bey Anton Strauß.'
With the pencil numbers 'W.DSZ' and '19176' on the verso. The invitation is listed in Zweig MS 214 (f. 15, item J).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-002480651
040-001947531 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 207-215 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Manuscripts formerly on loan to the British Library as Music Loan 95
Zweig MS 211 : Announcement of Beethoven's death in the form of an invitation to his funeral - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0005]/036-002480651[0005]/040-001947531
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folio
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158970777.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1827
- End Date:
- 1827
- Date Range:
- 1827
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 132 x 191mm. Watermark: chain lines only.
- Custodial History:
- According to Zweig's notes in Zweig MS 214, the invitation was in the possession of the von Breuning family. Purchased by Zweig in 1940 through Heinrich Eisemann, London. Formerly on loan to the British Library (Loan 95.4).
- Former Internal References:
- Music Loan 95.4
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_211
- Publications:
-
Reproduced: Stephan Ley, Beethoven als Freund der Familie Wegeler-v. Breuning nach den Familien-Sammlungen und -Erinnerungen (Bonn: Verlag von Frierdrich Cohen, 1927), p. 205; Another copy in Drei Begräbnisse und ein Todesfall: Beethovens Ende und die Erinnerungskultur seiner Zeit, Verlag Beethoven-Haus Bonn, 2002), no. 38, p. 90; Another copy which includes a watermark image is available on the Beethoven-Haus Digital Archives: http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=&template=dokseite_digitales_archiv_en&_dokid=bb:T00024158&_seite=1.
Bibliography: Gerhard von Breuning: Aus dem Schwarzspanierhause: Erinnerungen an L. van Beethoven aus meiner Jugendzeit (Wien: Verlag von L. Rosner, 1874), pp. 163-164; Stephan Ley, Beethoven als Freund der Familie Wegeler-v. Breuning nach den Familien-Sammlungen und -Erinnerungen (Bonn: Verlag von Frierdrich Cohen, 1927), pp. 204-205; Drei Begräbnisse und ein Todesfall: Beethovens Ende und die Erinnerungskultur seiner Zeit (Verlag Beethoven-Haus Bonn, 2002), pp. 90-91; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift: Katalog und Geschichte der Autographensammlung Stefan Zweig mit kommentiertem Abdruck von Stefan Zweigs Aufsätzen über das Sammeln von Handschriften (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), no. 841.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)