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Container Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-131 Language German Name Offenbach, Jacques, composer, 1819-1880

1. 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)

2. 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)