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31. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

32. Zweig MS 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 19
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 83, 1881: reduction of tutti passages from movements II, III and IV, for the published solo piano score (issued July 1882)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves on both sides of a single leaf. The passages concerned are, on the recto: movement II, bars 200-203, apparently the conclusion of a passage begun on another leaf; movement III, bars 1-22; movement IV, bars 39-47; and on the verso:- movement IV, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1882]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

33. Zweig MS 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 20
Title:
Johannes Brahms: ‘Zigeunerlieder’, for four voices and piano (words translated from Hungarian folk-songs by Hugo Conrat), op. 103
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink, with frequent corrections, on systems of up to six staves. With additional annotations by the composer in pencil and blue crayon, mostly intended for the copyist. The songs are unnumbered, the order in which they are written, relative to the numbers in the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

34. Zweig MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 21
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Canon for four voices ‘Ans Auge des Liebsten’ (words Friedrich Rückert), op. 113, no. 9: on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in black ink. Headed ‘à 4’ and signed at foot ‘Wien, Jan: 1873. Joh[anne]s Brahms’. In C; the two parts together on a single line preceded by bass and tenor clefs. The date of composition of this work is not known.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

35. Zweig MS 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 22
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letter to Peter Joseph Simrock
Scope & Content:
No place; dated ‘Juli 61’ (f. 1r). Numbers ‘524/1’ and ‘913’ added in pencil on f. 1r appear to be by dealers or previous owners.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Jul 1861
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

36. Zweig MS 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 23
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letter to Peter Joseph Simrock
Scope & Content:
Autograph. ‘Lilienthal 136, Baden-Baden’ (f. 2r); n.d., but endorsed ‘No. 1092. Baden-Baden d. 2/10.65. Brahms’ in another hand (f. 2v). Pencil numbers ‘524/2’ and ‘914’, in sequence with those on Zweig 22, added at foot of f. 1r.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1865]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

37. Zweig MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 24
Title:
Hans von Bülow: Letter to C. Kerfack
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; signed and dated on f. 1v. With envelope (f. 3) addressed by von Bülow, where Kerfack is described as ‘Generalagent der Londoner "Union"‘, [Berlin]; closed with seal impression depicting an eagle bearing a shield. The letter relates to Zweig MS 26. In the letter von ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
2 Nov 1864
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

38. Zweig MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 25
Title:
Ferruccio Busoni: ‘Indianisches Erntelied’ (Indian Harvest Song), for piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Music on ff. 2r and 3r only; f. 2r. headed ‘Indianische Erntelied / Erster Versuch einer Verwerthung für das Clavier’. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto vivace’ (f. 2r). Against the end of the last system on f. 3r is the date ‘12 April 1911...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
12 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

39. Zweig MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 30
Title:
Josef Danhauser: Drawing of Beethoven on his deathbed, 1827
Scope & Content:
Copy. In pencil. Shows Beethoven’s head turned to the left and resting on a pillow, a cover drawn up beneath his chin. With copy of Danhauser’s signature and the date 1827 diagonally to the left. Below is the faint pencil inscription ‘Beethoven / Den 28ten März an seinem / Todtenbette gezeichnet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[after 1844]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

40. Zweig MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 35
Title:
Edvard Grieg: ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite no. 2, op. 55
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 18 staves. Contains the four numbers first performed by Grieg at Kristiania, 14 Nov. 1891, but with the revised ending to no. 3. As follows: ff. 3v-8r. ‘Der Brautraub (Ingrids Klage)’, tempo directions ‘Allegro furioso - Andante - Allegro ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1891-1892]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 31 folios)

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