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51. Zweig MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 84
Title:
Heinrich Schütz: [‘Schwanengesang’], setting in German of Psalm 119, with Psalm 100 and the German Magnificat (SWV 482-494), for two four-part choirs with organ continuo: organ continuo part
Scope & Content:
Copy, with autograph annotations. Figured bass line, written in dark brown ink on single staves, with key words and phrases of the text written in beneath, and indicating the sections allocated to each of the two choirs. In a volume labelled ‘ORGANUM’ (f. i) on the upper cover. The music is in a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1671
Extent:
1 volume (i + 28 folios)

52. Zweig MS 85

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 85
Title:
Robert Schumann: ‘Beim Abschied zu singen’ (text E. von Feuchtersleben), for chorus and wind ensemble, op. 84
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft in short score. Written in ink on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Text begins ‘Es ist bestimmt in Gothes Rath’. Headed ‘Lied zum Abschied’ at top left and dated ‘7 Mai 47.’ at top right of f. 1r. With indication of instrumentation above the first system on f. 1r...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
7 May 1847
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

53. Zweig MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 88
Title:
Johann Strauss, the elder: ‘Redoute-Quadrille’, op.158
Scope & Content:
Possibly not autograph. Full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 staves. Music begins f. 1v. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 clarinets, oboe, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, side drum, 2 trombones, and strings. An extra stave is added in ink and pencil beneath the system on f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1843]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

54. Zweig MS 89-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89-92
Title:
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
4 volumes

55. Zweig MS 95

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 95
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Luisa Miller’, opera in three acts (libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller): album leaf with an extract from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Passage of 9 bars for Luisa (soprano), from the final section of her duet with her father, comprising the lines beginning ‘Andrem, raminghi e poveri’. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on sytems of two staves giving the vocal line and accompaniment. Marked ‘and[ant]e’ aga...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

56. Zweig MS 103

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 103
Title:
Richard Wagner: Music for ‘Beim Antritt des neuen Jahr 1835’, allegorical festival play in one act by Wilhelm Schmale (WWV 36): autograph draft of Overture and two choral numbers, nos. 3 and 5
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Short (piano) score, and piano vocal score. Written in ink, the Overture on systems of two staves, the vocal numbers on systems of up to five staves. Contents: ff. 1r-2v. Overture; headed (f. 1r) ‘No: 1: Ouverture’. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Allegro assai’ (f. 1r). f. 3r and v. [N...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1834]
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

57. Zweig MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 104
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ or ‘Die Novize von Palermo’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto by the composer, after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-6: incomplete draft of Overture, sketches for nos. 6, 7 and 11, and unidentified sketches
Scope & Content:
Autograph short score. Written mostly in ink on one stave or systems of two staves, partly in pencil (f. 3v), and with annotations in red ink (f. 2r, v). Trial stave rulings in lower margin of f. 1r. The identifiable sketches, using cue numbers from the published full score, are as follows: ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1835]
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

58. Zweig MS 105

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 105
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’: modern transcription of texted passages from Zweig MS 104
Scope & Content:
Comprising sketch for Isabella’s aria from No. 6, Finale to Act I, from Zweig MS 104, ff. 5r, 6v. Written in dark blue ink on single staves and systems of two staves. The hand is the same as that in Zweig MSS 107, ff. 2 - 11, and 111.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

59. 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)

60. Zweig MS 108-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108-109
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
2 volumes