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2. Zweig MS 1-218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 1-218
- Title:
- Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 1538-1936
- Extent:
- 205 items
3. Zweig MS 12-13
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 12-13
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1813-1817
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
4. Zweig MS 22-23
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 22-23
- Title:
- Johannes Brahms: Letters to Peter Joseph Simrock; 1861, [1865]
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1861-1865
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
5. Zweig MS 64-67
- 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
6. 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
7. Zweig MS 90
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 90
- Title:
- Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
- Scope & Content:
- Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 18 Jun 1933
- Extent:
- 1 volume (44 folios)
8. 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
9. Zweig MS 115-117
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 115-117
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1853-1860
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
10. Zweig MS 119-120
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 119-120
- Title:
- Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Scope & Content:
- [1834, 1839-1840]. Autograph.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- French and German
- Date Range:
- 1834-1840
- Extent:
- 2 volumes