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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)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 215
Title:: Autograph book of Ignaz Moscheles
Scope & Content:: Autograph book of the pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. Most entries are written directly into the volume and are by musicians contributing musical quotations or complete short pieces. In addition, a number of items, including letters and drawings, are inserted. Includes inserted items dated...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1764-1869
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

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