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

61. 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

62. Zweig MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 68
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

63. Zweig MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 69
Title:
Contract of marriage between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Constanze Weber
Scope & Content:
The marriage contract is written in ink in a notary's hand and signed on the reverse by Constanze Weber, her mother Maria Caecilia Weber, her witness Johann Carl Cetto von Kronstorff and her guardian Johann Thorwart, and by Mozart (‘Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’) and his witness Franz Gilowsky. With im...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
3 Aug 1782
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

64. Zweig MS 70

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 70
Title:
Modest Musorgsky: Songs ‘Svietik Savishna’ (words, the composer) and ‘Iz slez moikh vyroslo mnogo’ (words, translated by M. Mikhaylov from ‘Aus meinem Tränen’ by Heinrich Heine), for voice and piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of three staves. Written out as a pair, with title-page (f. 1r) giving dedications of ‘Svietik Savishna’ to Tsezar Antonovich Kiui, and ‘Iz slez moikh’ to Vladimir Petrovich Opochinin. As follows: ff. 1v-3r. ‘Svietik Savishna’. Vocal line in the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

65. Zweig MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 71
Title:
Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht’ for piano duet
Scope & Content:
1-7 November 1871. Written in dark brown ink on systems of two staves, the two parts on facing pages. Autograph fair copy. Music occupies ff. 2v-13r. Opening tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Title-page (f. 2r): ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht / mit Prozessionslied, Bauerntanz und Mitternachtsglocke / ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Nov 1871
Extent:
1 volume (14 folios)

66. Zweig MS 72

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 72
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: ‘La belle Hélène’, operetta in three acts (libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 15 to 24 staves. With corrections and additions in ink, some on inserted leaves, and a few pencil annotations also in autograph. Repeated passages are usually not entered in full and are instead indicated by numbered or lettered bars. In some nu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1864]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 205 folios)

67. Zweig MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 73
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: Sketches for unidentified works
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil, mostly on single staves but with some sections in score on up to four staves. In a sketch-book made from leaves or bifolia roughly sewn. Apparently first used, in what is now reverse order, for a sequence of instrumental waltzes, very incompletely ske...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[c 1855?]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 10 folios)

68. Zweig MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 74
Title:
Maurice Ravel: ‘Boléro’, ballet for orchestra, 1928: version for piano duet
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink, on systems of five staves (centre stave blank). Headed ‘Bolero’, with tempo direction ‘Tempo di bolero moderato assai [crotchet] = 76’ (f. 1r). The Secondo part is marked ‘Sordina’ at the beginning, and ‘senza sord.’ two bars after cue no. 4 (f. 2v). There are ma...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1929?]
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

69. Zweig MS 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 75
Title:
Anton Rubinstein: ‘Sérénade russe’ for piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Moderato, con moto [quaver]’. Title and ‘composé pour l’Album Bellini par Ant. Rubinstein’ at head of recto. The first 15 bars are numbered by the composer, and the numbers used to indicate a repeat of the passage towards the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1879]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

70. Zweig MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 76
Title:
Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata, ‘Ombre tacite e sole’, for soprano solo, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of four and five staves. The bass is figured throughout. Signed ‘Cav[alier]e Aless[andr]o Scarlatti’ at top left, and headed ‘Cantata p[er] / Camera / Sopr[an]o Solo / con Strom[en]ti d’Arco. / 31 8bre 1716’ at left of first system (f. 1r). The wo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
31 Oct 1716
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)