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191. 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)

192. 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)

193. 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)

194. 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)

195. 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)

196. Zweig MS 81 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 81 B
Title:
Franz Schubert: Folder in which Zweig MS 81A (Schubert’s autograph of ‘An die Musik’) was mounted before its presentation to the British Library
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Portrait of Schubert, lithograph by Josef Teltscher, 1826, published by Mansfeld & Co.; [1829]. The first of the two versions issued by Mansfeld & Co., with below the image a reproduction of Schubert’s signature and the words ‘Ehrenmitglied der Musik-Vereine zu Grätz un...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

197. Zweig MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 86
Title:
Gaspare Spontini: ‘Olympie’, opera in three acts, second version (libretto by Dieulafoy and Briffaut after Voltaire, revised by E.T.A. Hoffman), 1821: chorus ‘Ciel! Il expire’ with following recitative for the Hièrophante and Cassandra, from Act III, scene viii
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 16 staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante un poco sostenuto’ (f. 1r). Staves extended into the right margin by the composer on f. 2r. The recitative is given in a shorter version than that found in the published score, and the parts for the two ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

198. 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)

199. 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)

200. Zweig MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 110
Title:
Richard Wagner: Sketches for ‘La tombe dit à la rose’ (WWV 56), ‘Extase’ (WWV 54) and ‘Attente’ (WWV 55), for voice and piano (all to words by Victor Hugo)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of one or two staves. Folio 1r has many trial strokes with a rastrum. As follows: f. 1r. Vocal line and text of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’; written with the page inverted. Interspersed with untexted sketches on a single stave for ‘Attente’, using the page the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

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