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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 58
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: [1788]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 59
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five contredanses for flute, strings (2 violins, cello and bass) and drum (K609)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four or six staves. Headed by Mozart ‘Contredanses’ (f. 1r), with the nos. 1-5 at the head of the individual dances. No.1: f. 1r; no. 2: f. 1v; no. 3: f. 2r and v; no. 4: ff. 2v, 3r; no. 5: f. 3v. No. 4 is in ‘da capo’ form, with three alternati...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1787-1788?]
Extent:: 1 volume (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 61
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Rondo in C minor/major for armonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (K617)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 6 staves. The movements are ‘Adagio’ (ff. 1r-2v), and [Rondo] ‘Allegretto’ (ff. 2v-8r). The names of the instruments against the first system on f. 1r include ‘Harmonique’ for the glass harmonica. Later annotations in ink to f. 1r are ‘Von Breit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1791]
Extent:: 1 volume (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 63
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1784-1791
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 44 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 64
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, 5 November 1777
Scope & Content:: Dated Mannheim, 5 October [recte November], 1777, the date written in reverse at the end of the letter (f. 2v).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1777
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 64-67
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
Scope & Content:: Autograph.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1777-1779
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 65
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, 28 February 1778
Scope & Content:: Dated Mannheim, 28 Feb. 1778 at the foot of f. 2v.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1778
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 66
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, 23 December 1778
Scope & Content:: Dated Kaisheim, 23 Dec. 1778. Written principally on the recto, with the postscript (Mozart. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, lines 30-32) on the verso. The bottom right corner, with most of the word ‘C[ousin]’ and Mozart’s signature after the letters ‘W: A’, torn away.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1778
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 67
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
Scope & Content:: Dated Salzburg, 10 May [1779]. The year, at the head of f. 1r, written as’1709’. A drawing of Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, his cousin, head and shoulders in three-quarter profile, occupies part of f. 2r. On f. 2v is the address (only partly in Mozart’s hand), the words ‘Engel’ and ‘Adieu - Adieu -’...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1779]
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 68
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1785
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

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