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Zweig MS 208
- Record Id:
- 040-002487850
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022506156.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158970753.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 208
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Stephan von Breuning
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph. Written in pencil on light brown course paper. Originally folded in two. The letter reads:
f. 1r: Wenn du vieleicht / über die Glacis heute / spazieren gehst findest / du mich swischen 4 / u. 5 uhr.
f. 1v: Für Herrn / Hof-Sekretär / von Breuning.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-002480651
040-002487850 - 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 208 : Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Stephan von Breuning - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0005]/036-002480651[0002]/040-002487850
- 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_100158970753.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1805
- End Date:
- 1813
- Date Range:
- between 1805 and May 1813
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 257 x 395 mm
- Custodial History:
- Formerly in the possession of the von Breuning family, the letter was purchased in 1929 by Zweig from Heinrich Hinterberger, Vienna; subsequently on loan to the British Library (Loan 95.11).
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 95.11
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_208
- 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. 149.
Bibliography: 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. 826; Sieghard Brandenburg (ed.), Ludwig van Beethoven Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe, 7 vols (München: G. Henle Verlag, 1996-1998), vol.1 no. 241; Emily Anderson, The Letters of Beethoven: Collected, Translated and Edited with an Introduction, Appendixes, Notes and Indexes, 3 vols (London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1961), vol.1 no. 38; Stephan Ley, Beethoven als Freund der Familie Wegeler-v. Breuning nach den Familien-Sammlungen und -Erinnerungen (Bonn: Verlag von Frierdrich Cohen, 1927), pp. 149-150; Gerhard von Breuning: Aus dem Schwarzspanierhause: Erinnerungen an L. van Beethoven aus meiner Jugendzeit (Wien: Verlag von L. Rosner, 1874), p. 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)