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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 92
Title:: Richard Strauss: ‘Potpourri’ (Overture)
Scope & Content:: Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch, 10 Jan. 1935 (f. 4v). In a passage heavily annotated in pencil on f. 3v the score system is extended for 2 bars to 6 staves.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 10 Jan 1935
Extent:: 1 volume (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 93
Title:: Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2 Dec 1910
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 94
Title:: Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
Scope & Content:: Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:: 25 Sep 1919-11 Apr 1920
Extent:: 1 volume (121 pages + xxxiii folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 95
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Luisa Miller’, opera in three acts (libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller): album leaf with an extract from Act III
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Passage of 9 bars for Luisa (soprano), from the final section of her duet with her father, comprising the lines beginning ‘Andrem, raminghi e poveri’. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on sytems of two staves giving the vocal line and accompaniment. Marked ‘and[ant]e’ aga...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Italian
Date Range:: 1849
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 96
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Falstaff’, opera in three acts (libretto Arrigo Boito), 1893: draft in short score of 16 bars from Act III, part ii
Scope & Content:: In the hand of Arrigo Boito. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on systems of two staves giving vocal line and accompaniment (in the treble clef). Text in Italian. The passage begins 4 bars after fig. 50, and represents the revisions to the text and vocal line sung over the wedding m...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [Jan 1894-Feb 1894]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 97
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the to...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1859
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 98
Title:: Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2 horns, 2 flutes and strings
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante’ (f. 1r); ‘Da Capo’ at end (f. 8v). ‘Wagenseil 761 [line over]’ is written in ink of a darker colour in the upper right margin of f. 1r, and the name ‘Arcid:[ucessa] Joanna’, in a different ink and hand, at...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1761
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 99
Title:: Richard Wagner: Overture in E minor to Ernst Raupach’s König Enzio (WWV 24)
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft in piano score. Written in ink on systems of two staves, with additions in red ink (f. 2v). Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Allegro’ (f. 1r); ‘Fine’ at end (f. 2v). The draft of the Overture ends on the fourth system on f. 2v; below this are brief sketches for the Concert Overture ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1831-1832]
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 100
Title:: Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
Scope & Content:: Complete autograph draft in short score. Written in ink on systems of two staves; with a very few indications of orchestration. On a single leaf, headed ‘Entreacte tragique No: 1.’ (recto). Top left corner of the leaf torn away, removing tempo direction on the recto and affecting text on the ver...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1832
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 100-101
Title:: Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft in short score and fragmentary full score.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1832]
Extent:: 2 volumes

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