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1. Zweig MS 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12-13
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
2 volumes

2. Zweig MS 22-23

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 22-23
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letters to Peter Joseph Simrock; 1861, [1865]
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1861-1865
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Zweig MS 64-67

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 64-67
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1777-1779
Extent:
4 items

4. Zweig MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 77
Title:
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of up to 30 staves. Incomplete, comprising nos. I, III, IV and bars 1-16 only of no. V. No. I written jointly by Schoenberg and Stein, the remaining numbers entirely in the hand of the composer. As follows: ff. 1-6r. No. I; tempo marking (f. 1r)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1910
Extent:
1 volume (17 folios)

5. Zweig MS 89-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89-92
Title:
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
4 volumes

6. Zweig MS 93

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)

7. Zweig MS 94

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)

8. Zweig MS 100-101

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

9. Zweig MS 108-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108-109
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
2 volumes

10. Zweig MS 115-117

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 115-117
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1853-1860
Extent:
3 volumes