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61. 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)

62. 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)

63. 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)

64. Zweig MS 89

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89
Title:
Act I of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
Scope & Content:
Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r, and with ‘begonnen 16. Februar 1933’ [added] at bottom left; dated Garmisch, 11 March 1933 at end (f. 40r). Timings are given in pencil on ff. 11v, 19v, 40r. As follows: ff. 1r-4v. Scene I. ff. 4v-11v. [Scene II.] The beg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
11 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 volume (i + 40 folios)

65. Zweig MS 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 91
Title:
Act III of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
Scope & Content:
Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro molto’ (f. 2r). Signed at upper right of f. 2r; dated Kissingen, 13 May 1934 (f. 33v). Additions in brown ink occupy two single inserted folios (ff. 1, 34) bound at the front and rear of the volume as well as part of the final page of the last gathering, as noted...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
13 May 1934
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

66. Zweig MS 92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 92
Title:
Richard Strauss: ‘Potpourri’ (Overture)
Scope & Content:
Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch, 10 Jan. 1935 (f. 4v). In a passage heavily annotated in pencil on f. 3v the score system is extended for 2 bars to 6 staves.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
10 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

67. 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)

68. 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)

69. 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)

70. 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)

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