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1. Add MS 29803

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Add MS 29803
Title:
Cadenza by Beethoven, Canzonetta by Rossini, and Nocturne by Johann Nepomuk Kafka
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-2b. Cadenza [by Beethoven] to the rondo in Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor [No. 466 in Köchel's Catalogue]. Autograph. Followed by Breitkopf und Härtel's printed edition of the same. f. 5. 'Mi lagnerò tacendo della mia sorte': Canzonetta, apparently no. 10 of a series by Rossini,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 42064

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Add MS 42064
Title:
'FANTASIO': a comic opera in three acts, with overture and orchestral accompaniments, etc., in score, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Mainly autograph. Libretto by Paul de Musset, based on the play by Alfred de Musset, his brother. French. Published in 1872 and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, 18 Jan. 1872, and then in Vienna, 21 Feb. 1872, in a German translation made by Eduard Mautner and Richard Genée (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, 2nd ed., 1955, col. 1020). This score is s...
Scope & Content:
Jacques Offenbach, composer: Comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 1872. Paul Edmé de Musset, Author: Libretto to comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 19th cent. Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, poet: Comic opera 'Fantasio' based on the play by: 19th cent. Eduard Mautner, Austrian writer and poet: German translati...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 60615

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

4. Add MS 60616

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Add MS 60616
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

5. R.M.21.e.24

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R.M.21.e.24
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Te Deum; Jan.15, 1845. Setting in the key of C major, with English and German words; for soli, choir, and full orchestra, in score. Scored and arranged by Ernst Lampert. ff. 16. Ernst Lampert, composer: Te Deum , arranged by Ern...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 item

6. Zweig MS 2

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Zweig MS 2
Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir’ (BWV 130): viola part
Scope & Content:
In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1724]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

7. Zweig MS 7

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Zweig MS 7
Title:
Felix Mendelssohn: note relating to Zweig MS 6 [sketches for Beethoven's op. 69 cello sonata]
Scope & Content:
Written in ink on recto of a single leaf. Gives identification of Zweig MS 6, then ‘von mir in Wien aus der Autographensammlung des Herrn Aloys Fuchs erhalten. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.’ Formerly kept with Zweig MS 6.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

8. Zweig MS 8

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Zweig MS 8
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1809-1810]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

9. Zweig MS 9

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Zweig MS 9
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
Scope & Content:
Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

10. Zweig MS 12

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Zweig MS 12
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Baden, Summer, 1813]. Written in ink, addressed ‘Hr. von Bihler’ on the verso. An irregularly trimmed leaf, with bottom right hand corner, which presumably carried Beethoven’s signature, cut away.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)