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21672. Zweig MS 101
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 101
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 11 staves. Incomplete, the first 52 bars only, occupying the whole of ff. 1-3r. Headed ‘No. 1’ and ‘Entreacte tragique No: 1.’ (f. 1r). Tempo direction ‘Allegro’ (f. 1r). Numbered 57-9 in ink over pencil (see description of Zweig MS ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1832
- Extent:
- 1 volume (6 folios)
21673. Zweig MS 102
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 102
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Symphony in C (WWV 29): piano duet version of part of movement I
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph score. Incomplete, breaking off after 116 bars of the Allegro. Written in ink on systems of four staves. ‘Sinfonia’ at head of f. 1r. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto e maestoso (f. 1r) - Allegro con brio’ (f. 1v). The last two bars are written in the ‘primo’ part only, and the lower two sy...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- [1832-1833?]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
21674. Zweig MS 103
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 103
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Music for ‘Beim Antritt des neuen Jahr 1835’, allegorical festival play in one act by Wilhelm Schmale (WWV 36): autograph draft of Overture and two choral numbers, nos. 3 and 5
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. Short (piano) score, and piano vocal score. Written in ink, the Overture on systems of two staves, the vocal numbers on systems of up to five staves. Contents: ff. 1r-2v. Overture; headed (f. 1r) ‘No: 1: Ouverture’. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Allegro assai’ (f. 1r). f. 3r and v. [N...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- [1834]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (5 folios)
21675. Zweig MS 104
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 104
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ or ‘Die Novize von Palermo’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto by the composer, after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-6: incomplete draft of Overture, sketches for nos. 6, 7 and 11, and unidentified sketches
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph short score. Written mostly in ink on one stave or systems of two staves, partly in pencil (f. 3v), and with annotations in red ink (f. 2r, v). Trial stave rulings in lower margin of f. 1r. The identifiable sketches, using cue numbers from the published full score, are as follows: ff...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- [1835]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (6 folios)
21676. Zweig MS 105
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 105
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’: modern transcription of texted passages from Zweig MS 104
- Scope & Content:
- Comprising sketch for Isabella’s aria from No. 6, Finale to Act I, from Zweig MS 104, ff. 5r, 6v. Written in dark blue ink on single staves and systems of two staves. The hand is the same as that in Zweig MSS 107, ff. 2 - 11, and 111.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 19th century-20th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
21677. Zweig MS 106
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 106
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Overture in C, ‘Polonia’ (WWV 39), 1836: piano reduction, with sketch for song ‘Les adieux de Marie Stuart’ (words J.P. de Béranger) for voice and piano (WWV 61); [early 1840]
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. As follows: ff. 1r-4r. Overture, headed ‘Polonia. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r); tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Tempo 1mo (f. 1r) - Allegretto - Allo: molto vivace (f. 1v) - Allegretto (f. 3v) - Presto’ (f. 4r). Copying instructions for bars or sections t...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1840
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
21678. Zweig MS 107
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 107
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Papers and transcriptions relating to Zweig MS 106
- Scope & Content:
- Written in dark blue or black ink. As follows: f. 1r. Note on Zweig MS 106, and attestation that it is in Wagner’s hand, signed Wilhelm Tappert; 1 Dec. 1889. ff. 2r-6v, 7. Score of Overture, with I and II violins, cello and bass parts only; a shortened [or incomplete] version, apparently sco...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French and German
- Date Range:
- 19th century-20th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (11 folios)
21679. Zweig MS 108
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 108
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): draft of overture with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
- Scope & Content:
- Written in ink on systems of two staves. Trial stave rulings on ff. 1v and 2r. Contents as follows: ff. 1r, 2v, 2r (lower half). Overture. Tempo directions (f. 1r) ‘Maestoso moderato - Allegro maestoso’. Incomplete, consisting of bars 1-74 (f. 1r) and 164-256 (f. 2v, 2r lower portion), using b...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- [1836]-1837
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
21680. 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