Proposed railway from Mikesse to Ulanga. 'November-Dezember, '08.'
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Covers the route of the proposed branch line south of the main Central Line railway. The map is in 3 sections: Blatt I: Mikesse-Kissaki Blatt II: Kissaki-Ruaha Blatt III: Ruaha-Ulanga Portrays hydrology, relief by contours, roads and tracks, railways, settlements, place names and topographical n...
'Copies of German sketches' - War Office ledger. Traced by No. 6 Topographical Section R.E.
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Shows hydrology, indicative relief, roads and tracks, railways, telegraphs, and settlements. Place-names and topographical notes are given in German. Scales range from approximately 1:250,000 to approximately 1:500,000; some are based on 'marching hours'.
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)
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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...
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
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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
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir’ (BWV 130): viola part
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In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of t...
Felix Mendelssohn: note relating to Zweig MS 6 [sketches for Beethoven's op. 69 cello sonata]
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Written in ink on recto of a single leaf. Gives identification of Zweig MS 6, then ‘von mir in Wien aus der Autographensammlung des Herrn Aloys Fuchs erhalten. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.’ Formerly kept with Zweig MS 6.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
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Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
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Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Ludwig van Beethoven: [Ariette] ‘Der Kuss’, song with piano accompaniment (words Christian Felix Weisse), op. 128
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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...