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1571. Zweig MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 16
Title:
Vincenzo Bellini: ‘Bianca e Fernando’, opera in two acts (libretto Felice Romani, after D. Gilardoni), 1828: autograph sketch for ‘O contento desiato’, the final section of Filippo’s aria in Act I
Scope & Content:
Vocal line only, written in ink on a single stave, with the words beneath for the opening section and at the end. The role is for basso cantante, and though here originally written without clef or key signature, is notated in G in the bass clef; a soprano C clef has been inserted before it in a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1828
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

1572. Zweig MS 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 18
Title:
Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14 November 1796
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; on paper with legal stamps, showing the seal of Charles IV and the year, at the top of ff. 1r and 2v. As follows: f. 1r and v. Thematic catalogne, headed ‘Catalogo delle opere da me Luigi Boccherini cedute in tutta Proprietá al Sig[no]r Ignazio Pleyel’ (f. 1r), with,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Spanish
Date Range:
14 Nov 1796
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

1573. Zweig MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 28
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: ‘Giovinotti mentre in volto’, rondo for soprano and strings
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Headed ‘Rondo’ in left upper margin of f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘And[ant]e’; the name of the character singing given as ‘Candida’ (f. 1r). Scored for violins, viola and unfigured bass; vocal part in the soprano clef. ‘Del Sig[no]r D. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

1574. Zweig MS 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 29
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: Fragment, apparently from a duet or trio in D
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on a single system of ten staves on either side of a single leaf. In common time, with the text ‘a vostr’ordine potete entrar’ (recto), ‘Quando mi trova gia maritata sara da ridere col mio Papa’ (verso). Although three lines are left for the vocal parts, only...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

1575. Zweig MS 34

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 34
Title:
Christoph Willibald Gluck: [‘I lamenti d’amore’], cantata beginning ‘Misero! e che farò! e come, e con qual cor i figli abbraccerò’ for soprano and strings (words, Raniero de Calzabigi), arranged by the composer from the aria for Admeto (tenor) ‘Misero! e che farò’ from act III of his opera ‘Alceste’
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. In C minor. Tempo directions ‘Andante un poco - Recit. - lento - presto - lento - presto - moderato - andante - Presto - Lento - Presto - Lento - Presto’. The music and text begin as in the first printed edition of the opera, though...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1767?]
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

1576. Zweig MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 36
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

1577. Zweig MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 37
Title:
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

1578. Zweig MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 39
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows: ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 43 folios)

1579. Zweig MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 40
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1794-1795
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

1580. Zweig MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 41
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Variations in G on the anthem ‘Gott erhalte den Kaiser’, for keyboard; theme and Variation I
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. The theme occupies the bottom four staves, and Variation I the upper eight staves. No key signature is given, and tempo directions and expression marks are also absent. On the verso is a note of authenticity, in I...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1797-1799]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

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