Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven [notated music manuscript]

Title

Fidelio working manuscript, act 2, no. 14 : Vienna March 1814 / Ludwig van Beethoven. [print]

Uniform Title

Fidelio (1814) Er sterbe

Creator

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

Names

Sonnleithner, Joseph Ferdinand, 1766-1835

Treitschke, Georg Friedrich, 1776-1842

Place of Publication/Creation

Type of Material

notated music manuscript

Date Created

[1814]

Languages

German

German

German words.

Form

print

Physical Description

1 ms. score (8 p.) ; 24 x 33 cm. + 1 ms. document ([2] p. ; 30 cm.)

Abstract

"Portion of the coda to No.14, the quartet in Act 2 Er sterbe!, containing the composers [sic] re-working of this passage of the text of Leonore (1805 and 1806) for the final version Fidelio (1814), beginning with Leonore's words die Liebe wird im Bunde [...], the composer writes additional notes to Leonore's part, drafts a new phrase for Leonore (die Liebe) subsequently deleted by him, recasts Pizarro's and Rocco's parts [...], making necessary alterations to the music, rewrites Rocco's phrase O Gott o Gott was wartet mein?, and adds many additional instrumental, dynamic and phrase markings throughout."--Sotheby's description.

Subjects

Operas--Excerpts--Scores

Vocal quartets with orchestra--Scores

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

Notes

Copyist's ms. of excerpt from solo vocal quartet (STBarB, orchestra acc.) near end of Fidelio, act 2, with extensive revisions in Beethoven's hand.

Title from cover of box providing housing.

Title on spine of housing box: Beethoven Fidelio 1814.

Text adapted from the French tale Léonore of Jean Nicolas Bouilly by Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleitner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke.

Paginated B1-B7, 8B (i.e. B8).

In brown and black ink, with composer's revisions and markings in dark ink and pencil. Housed in box (26 x 34 cm.); includes stamp on verso of front cover of box marked: Ex Libris Gerard W. Byrne.

Includes ms. document of authentication in German ([2] p. ; 30 cm.), dated January 1937, and headed: Autographen=Sammlung von Fritz Schubart in Dresden. Document specifies place and conjectural time of authorship as: Wien, Frühjahr 1814.

Preferred citation

Juilliard Manuscript Collection, Lila Acheson Wallace Library, The Juilliard School.

Acquisition

Gift; Bruce Kovner; 2006.

Ownership

From the collection of Fritz Schubart of Dresden (1937). Purchased at auction by Sotheby's, London, May 21, 1999, Lot 25.

Access Condition

Restricted access; Apply; Library Director.

Juilcat bibliographic record

http://library.juilliard.edu/record=b1129615

Referenced by

RISM series A/II,

Electronic resource

http://www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org/composers.php#/hires/BEET/BEET_FIDE

Last Updated: 04-30-2010