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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 120
Title:: Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’. French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:: Translation of libretto as ‘La défense d’amour / ou / La novice de Palerme’. With draft of letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer; [1839, 1840]. Autograph. As follows: ff. 1-30r. Libretto; [1839]. French. Title and list of dramatis personae on f. 1; text (ff. 1v-30r) has marginal diagrams relating to met...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1839-1840
Extent:: 1 volume (30 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 121
Title:: Richard Wagner: Notes and drafts, comprising translation into French of prose sketch for the opera ‘Die hohe Braut’, translations into French of text of three numbers from the opera ‘Der fliegende Holländer’, and notes on the ‘cornet à 3 pistons’
Scope & Content:: Autograph. As follows: ff. 1r, 3r and v. ‘Die hohe Braut’ (WWV 40), opera in 5 acts (libretto Wagner after Heinrich Koenig), [1835-1842]: translation of prose sketch; 1840. French. Written in brown ink, with autograph corrections and additions. ff. 2r, 1v. ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63),...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1840
Extent:: 1 volume (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 125
Title:: Richard Wagner: Drafts of fourteen letters, with one fair copy, to various recipients, mostly written from Paris
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on paper of various sizes, some leaves little more than slips. All but the fair copy (no. [8.]) unsigned; all but one of the remainder undated. As follows: [1.] f. 1r. To [Léon Pillet, director of the Paris Grand Opéra]; [Paris, Sept./Oct. 1840]. French. Written in b...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1839-1842
Extent:: 1 volume (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 215
Title:: Autograph book of Ignaz Moscheles
Scope & Content:: Autograph book of the pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. Most entries are written directly into the volume and are by musicians contributing musical quotations or complete short pieces. In addition, a number of items, including letters and drawings, are inserted. Includes inserted items dated...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1764-1869
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

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