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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 27
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 27
- Title:
- Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major for piano, op. 60
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto’. Headed by the composer ‘Barcarolle / pour le piano / dedié a Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen / par F Chopin. Op. 60 / Leipsic Haertel. Paris Brandus (Schl.) - Londres Wessel.’ (f. 1r); ‘fine’ at end (f. 4r). With...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- [1846]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
4. Zweig MS 31
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 31
- Title:
- Claude Debussy: Fantaisie for piano and orchestra: solo piano part, with reduction of orchestral accompaniment for a second piano
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. In score. Written in black ink on systems of four and five staves, one stave for the most part left blank; some clefs and key signatures in Part I (ff. 3v-8r) are in red ink. With a few annotations and corrections in pencil on. ff. 10r and v, 11r, 16r. Contents as follows: f. 3r. Ti...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1889-1890
- Extent:
- 1 volume (19 folios)
5. Zweig MS 32
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 32
- Title:
- Léo Delibes: ‘Lakmé’, opera in three acts (libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille), 1883: duet ‘J’ai marché sous les hautes fougères’ for Gèrald and Frédéric
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. Vocal score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Corrections in ink throughout. Tempo direction (at bar 3) ‘Moderato’. Comprising an additional scene, replacing spoken dialogue, headed (f. 1r) ‘No.18 (Nouveau) Scène (G)’, with a note that the first bar replaces the last bar of t...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 25 Aug 1883
- Extent:
- 1 volume (7 folios)
6. Zweig MS 35
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 35
- Title:
- Edvard Grieg: ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite no. 2, op. 55
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 18 staves. Contains the four numbers first performed by Grieg at Kristiania, 14 Nov. 1891, but with the revised ending to no. 3. As follows: ff. 3v-8r. ‘Der Brautraub (Ingrids Klage)’, tempo directions ‘Allegro furioso - Andante - Allegro ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French, German, and Norwegian
- Date Range:
- [1891-1892]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 31 folios)
7. Zweig MS 48
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 48
- Title:
- Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French, German, and Italian
- Date Range:
- [1903]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (iii + 12 folios)
8. 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)
9. 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)
10. 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)