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1. Zweig MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 1
Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, `Wo soll ich fliehen hin?' (words after Johann Heermann), for four voices and instruments (BWV 5)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in brown ink on systems of two to ten staves. Headed (f. 3r) `J[esu]. J[uva]. Do[m]i[ni]ca 19 post Trinit. Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Concerto'. With revisions throughout also in Bach's hand (listed in detail in Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke (Ka...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1724]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

2. Zweig MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 10
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: [Ariette] ‘Der Kuss’, song with piano accompaniment (words Christian Felix Weisse), op. 128
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves; voice line in the treble clef. In A, marked ‘Allegretto’ and headed ‘Mit Lebhaftigkeit jedoch nicht in zu geschwindem Zeitmass, u[nd] scherzend vorgetragen’. Dated by Beethoven ‘1822 in decemb.’ at the head of f. 1r, and with his commen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

3. Zweig MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 11
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Three-part canon ‘Kurz ist der Schmerz’ (words Friedrich von Schiller, from Die Jungfrau von Orleans), WoO 166
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on the recto of a single leaf; staves drawn freehand by Beethoven. The music on five single staves with the text beneath. Dated ‘Wien am / 3ten März / 1815’ at the foot, with the signed dedication ‘Mögten sie doch lieber Spohr / überall, wo sie wahre Kunst und / wahre K...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1815
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

4. Zweig MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 52
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in D minor (K173), movement IV only
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. No tempo direction. Version comprising 84 bars, shorter than that finally published. Names of the instruments are indicated in ink against the first system (f. 1r) [by J.A. André]. Other later annotations in ink to f. 1r are: heading [in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1773]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

5. Zweig MS 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 53
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano in F (K377/374e)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. Mozart’s title ‘Sonata III’ is at the head of the music (f. 1r). The instruments marked ‘Violino’ and ‘Cembalo’ against the first system of each movement. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-3r. ‘All.[egr]o’. The upper system on f. 2v c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1781]
Extent:
1 volume (iv +8 folios)

6. Zweig MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 55
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of six staves. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-5v. ‘All[egr]o’; this and the heading ‘Concerto per il Corno Solo’ on f. 1r are apparently not in Mozart’s hand. ff. 6r-7v. ‘Larghetto’. Headed ‘Romance’, and signed at top right ‘di Wolfgango ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1787?]
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

7. Zweig MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 56
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Song ‘Das Veilchen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano (K476)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. In G; tempo direction ‘Allegretto:’. Vocal line written in the soprano clef (apparently written over a treble clef); the parts labelled ‘Singstim[m]e.’ and ‘Klavier:’ against the first system (f. 1r). The heading ‘Das veilchen.’ ‘von gö...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

8. Zweig MS 58

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)

9. Zweig MS 59

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)

10. Zweig MS 61

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)