Carl Maria von Weber an James Robinson Planché in London
Dresden, Samstag, 3. Dezember 1825
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- 1825-12-03: to Crémont
- 1825-11-30: from Planché
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- 1825-12-05: to Weber
- 1825-12-06: from Thomson
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- 1825-02-19: to Planché
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- 1826-05-25: to Planché
My dear Sir!
I am very ashamed to be your debtor for three amiable letters. but You must have indulgence with a very much toiled and moiled poor man, as I am.
I have now to give you an account of our Oberon. two acts are ended. the first is in itsΔ total state as you have written it. In the second I have yetΔ fullfilled your wish to compose “a lonely arab maid” pp —Δ but I would have ommittedΔ —Δ [“]o Araby my native land” —Δ in the third act, because I fear that the Opera will beΔ too long already. this Song however shall not disunite us; and I will comose itΔ, perhaps first in England.
The Duo for Reiza and Huon Δ which you was so Kind asΔ to send me, I haveΔ not composed, because, beautiful as it is, it can not beΔ placed in that Situation with Effect.
Little changements which I have permitted myselfΔ, shall, asΔ I hope, be ratified by you.
My health is yet Δ weak indeedΔ, but much better than Δ last Winter and if Δ Oberon is yet fixed to be played onΔ Eastermonday 1826, I hope surely to be in London the first days of march.
I pray, You will be so good, as to say to Mr Livius that I have already sent him an answer under the date of the 18t SeptembreΔ on his adress =Δ Dorsett Cottage, Grosvenor Place.
Not enough can I express the pleasure in hoping to make your personell acquaintance, and till thanΔ and ever Δ believe me my dear Sir
most Sincerely yours
CMvWeber.
Dresden, December 3d 1825.Δ
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Summary
berichtet ihm über die Komposition des Oberon mit Erwähnung einzelner Nummern, die er z.T. nicht komponieren will; bei anhaltender Gesundheit hofft er, dass die Oper zu Ostern 1826 gegeben werden kann; bittet Livius mitzuteilen, er habe ihm schon im September geantwortet
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“I am very ashamed to be your debtor”
Responsibilities
- Übertragung
- Eveline Bartlitz; Joachim Veit
Tradition in 2 Text Sources
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1. Text Source: Cambridge (GB), Fitzwilliam Museum (GB-Cfm)
Physical Description
- 1 Bl. (2 b. S. einschl. Adr.)
- durchgängig in lateinischer Schrift
Provenance
- Sotheby (3.Mai 1902), Nr. 219
Corresponding sources
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Copy: Berlin (D), Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B)
Shelf mark: Weberiana Cl. II B, 2ß, Nr. 12, S. 901–902 (dt. Übers.) -
Planché, J.R.: Recollections and Reflections. Vol.1, London 1872, S. 78–79
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Schloss, Albert: MANAGER'S EDITION. | OBERON | KING OF THE FAIRIES, | A ROMANTIC FAIRY OPERA, | IN THREE ACTS. | THE MUSIC | BY C. M. VON WEBER: | THE TEXT ADAPTED TO THE GERMAN STAGE, | BY THEODORE HELL, | (In German and English.) | TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED | THREE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, WRITTEN IN ENGLISH, | BY THE COMPOSER, | TO | M. PLANCHÉ, | AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL OPERA, | NOW PERFORMING AT | THE THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, | UNDER THE DIRECTION OF | HERR SCHUMANN, | DIRECTOR OF THE OPERA AT MAYENCE. | ACTING MANAGER, | MR. BUNN. | PRICE EIGHTEEN PENCE. | LONDON: | A. SCHLOSS, 12, BERNERS ST., OXFORD ST., | Foreign Bookseller and Fancy Stationer, by special appoiniment, to H. R. H., | the Duchess of Kent; | SOLD IN THE THEATRE. | And at all Principal Music and Booksellers, as named on wrappen., London 1841
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2. Text Source: Draft: Berlin (D), Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B)
Shelf mark: Mus. ms. autogr. theor. C. M. v. Weber WFN 6 (XVII), Bl. 92a/v
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“… London”Im Entwurf: to J: R: Planché. Esqr London.
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