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2. Zweig MS 1-218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 1-218
- Title:
- Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 1538-1936
- Extent:
- 205 items
3. Zweig MS 36
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 36
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 2 folios)
4. Zweig MS 37
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 37
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1721
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
5. Zweig MS 38
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 38
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1743-1744
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
6. Zweig MS 40
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 40
- Title:
- Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1794-1795
- Extent:
- 1 volume (9 folios)
7. Zweig MS 60
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 60
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in E flat, for two violins, two violas and cello (K614)
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Movement I (ff. 1r-6v), ‘All[egr]o di molto’; movement II (ff. 7r-10v) ‘Andante’; movement III (ff. 11r-12v) ‘Menuetto: Allegretto’ and ‘Trio’; movement IV (ff. 13r-18v) ‘All[egr]o’. Headed by Mozart ‘Quintetto:’ (f. 1r) and with hi...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- [1791]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (18 folios)
8. 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)
9. Zweig MS 132-200
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 132-200
- Title:
- Stefan Zweig Collection: Literary and historical manuscripts
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- [1542-1940]
- Extent:
- 69 items
10. Zweig MS 133
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 133
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- c 1841
- Extent:
- 1 item
