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Collection Area Music Collections Container Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-131

111. Zweig MS 124

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 124
Title:
Richard Wagner: Letter to Baron Ferdinand von Biedenfeld; Dresden, 17 January 1849
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink in italic script. Text on f. 1r and v; address f. 2v. Signed and dated by Wagner at foot of f. 1v. Weimar and Dresden postage franks, cancellation [?] ‘26’ in red crayon, and remnants of seal, all on f. 2v. Numbered 23 in pencil at top left of f. 1r. In this we...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

112. Zweig MS 125

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)

113. Zweig MS 126

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 126
Title:
Carl Maria von Weber: Incidental music to ‘Preciosa’ (play by P.A. Wolff): no. 7, song ‘Einsam bin ich nicht alleine’, for voice [and guitar]
Scope & Content:
Not autograph; in an unidentified hand. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. In D major in 6/8 time; tempo marking ‘larghetto’. On the verso are unidentified verses, headed ‘Sängers [?] Abendlied’, with two lines of music, one above [guitar accompaniment?] and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1820
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

114. Zweig MS 127

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 127
Title:
Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Oberon’, opera in three acts (libretto by James Robinson Planché after C.M. Wieland): sketches for part of Overture and of Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph short or condensed score. Written in ink on systems of two, three or four staves. As follows: f. 1r. ‘O Araby, dear Araby’ [no. 16]. Headed ‘Song Fatima’. f. 1v. ‘Mourn thou poor heart’ [no. 19]. Headed ‘Cavatina’. With annotations in red crayon and in pencil. f. 1v. Overture, eight ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1826
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

115. Zweig MS 128

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 128
Title:
Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6, [1909]: fair copy made by the composer for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of between five and 32 staves. Bar lines ruled in pencil, with corrections, additions and marginal notes in pencil. The pieces occupy the following folios: ff. 1-2v. I.; tempo direction ‘Etwas bewegte Achtel’. Unpitched rhythmic sketches in penci...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1911]
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 17 folios)

116. Zweig MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 129
Title:
Hugo Wolf: ‘Ernst ist die Frühling’ (words Heinrich Heine), song for voice and piano; 13, 16 Oct. 1878
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of three staves, on a single leaf; the single system on the verso contains the concluding five bars. Headed ‘Neue Gedichte / aus dem Liederstrauss v. H. Heine’, numbered ‘X’ beneath the title, signed at top right, and dated ‘Wien am 13, 16 Octob. 1878’ at top...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Oct 1878
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

117. Zweig MS 130

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 130
Title:
Hugo Wolf: ‘Gesang Weylas’ (words Eduard Mörike), song for voice and piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of three staves, on a single leaf; the single system on the verso contains the concluding four bars. Headed ‘Gesang Weyla’s’. Without time signature, tempo direction ‘Langsam u[nd]. feierlich.’; tempo direction and dynamic markings and phrasing are all added ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

118. Zweig MS 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 131
Title:
Carl Michael Ziehrer: Musical quotation on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Unidentified; 4 bars in G major in 3/4 time. Written in ink, on a single stave drawn free-hand, on the recto of a single leaf. Signed ‘C M. Ziehrer / Wien 21/12 897’ [line over]. Later annotations in pencil include numbers from Hinterberger catalogues 18 and XX.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)