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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 1-131
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Music manuscripts from the collection of Stefan Zweig.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1671-1999]
Extent:: 131 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 27
Title:: Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major for piano, op. 60
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto’. Headed by the composer ‘Barcarolle / pour le piano / dedié a Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen / par F Chopin. Op. 60 / Leipsic Haertel. Paris Brandus (Schl.) - Londres Wessel.’ (f. 1r); ‘fine’ at end (f. 4r). With...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1846]
Extent:: 1 volume (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 31
Title:: Claude Debussy: Fantaisie for piano and orchestra: solo piano part, with reduction of orchestral accompaniment for a second piano
Scope & Content:: Autograph. In score. Written in black ink on systems of four and five staves, one stave for the most part left blank; some clefs and key signatures in Part I (ff. 3v-8r) are in red ink. With a few annotations and corrections in pencil on. ff. 10r and v, 11r, 16r. Contents as follows: f. 3r. Ti...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1889-1890
Extent:: 1 volume (19 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 32
Title:: Léo Delibes: ‘Lakmé’, opera in three acts (libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille), 1883: duet ‘J’ai marché sous les hautes fougères’ for Gèrald and Frédéric
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Vocal score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Corrections in ink throughout. Tempo direction (at bar 3) ‘Moderato’. Comprising an additional scene, replacing spoken dialogue, headed (f. 1r) ‘No.18 (Nouveau) Scène (G)’, with a note that the first bar replaces the last bar of t...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 25 Aug 1883
Extent:: 1 volume (7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 35
Title:: Edvard Grieg: ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite no. 2, op. 55
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 18 staves. Contains the four numbers first performed by Grieg at Kristiania, 14 Nov. 1891, but with the revised ending to no. 3. As follows: ff. 3v-8r. ‘Der Brautraub (Ingrids Klage)’, tempo directions ‘Allegro furioso - Andante - Allegro ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1891-1892]
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 31 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 48
Title:: Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1903]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 72
Title:: Jacques Offenbach: ‘La belle Hélène’, operetta in three acts (libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 15 to 24 staves. With corrections and additions in ink, some on inserted leaves, and a few pencil annotations also in autograph. Repeated passages are usually not entered in full and are instead indicated by numbered or lettered bars. In some nu...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: [1864]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 205 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 73
Title:: Jacques Offenbach: Sketches for unidentified works
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil, mostly on single staves but with some sections in score on up to four staves. In a sketch-book made from leaves or bifolia roughly sewn. Apparently first used, in what is now reverse order, for a sequence of instrumental waltzes, very incompletely ske...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: [c 1855?]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 10 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 74
Title:: Maurice Ravel: ‘Boléro’, ballet for orchestra, 1928: version for piano duet
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink, on systems of five staves (centre stave blank). Headed ‘Bolero’, with tempo direction ‘Tempo di bolero moderato assai [crotchet] = 76’ (f. 1r). The Secondo part is marked ‘Sordina’ at the beginning, and ‘senza sord.’ two bars after cue no. 4 (f. 2v). There are ma...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1929?]
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 75
Title:: Anton Rubinstein: ‘Sérénade russe’ for piano
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Moderato, con moto [quaver]’. Title and ‘composé pour l’Album Bellini par Ant. Rubinstein’ at head of recto. The first 15 bars are numbered by the composer, and the numbers used to indicate a repeat of the passage towards the ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: [1879]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

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