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111. Zweig MS 200

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 200
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CC. Reformatoren-Gedenkbuch; 1542. German and Latin. Album with entries by Reformers and others, including Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Creutziger. The volume also includes a letter of 1554 from Philipp Melanchthon to Theodor Fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1542
Extent:
1 item

112. Zweig MS 207

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 207
Title:
Sketchbook of Josef Teltscher, including drawings of Beethoven on his deathbed
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes sketches, portraits (with some sitters named) and drawings finished to varying degrees, in pencil, with colour added to some. The items in pencil alone include two views of Beethoven's deathbed, and one very rough sketch of the scene. The notebook is listed in Zweig MS 214 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 25 folios)

113. 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)

114. 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)

115. Zweig MS 119

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 119
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’. Draft libretto
Scope & Content:
Written in brown ink, with corrections and additions (ff. 1r, 2v, 3r, 6v, 8v, 9r) in red ink. Incomplete, lacking Act I, scene i, and the end of the last scene of Act II. Portions of a number of leaves are torn or cut away. Of these, the following affect the text: lower fore-edge ff. 1, 2, and l...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1834]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

116. Zweig MS 81 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 81 B
Title:
Franz Schubert: Folder in which Zweig MS 81A (Schubert’s autograph of ‘An die Musik’) was mounted before its presentation to the British Library
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Portrait of Schubert, lithograph by Josef Teltscher, 1826, published by Mansfeld & Co.; [1829]. The first of the two versions issued by Mansfeld & Co., with below the image a reproduction of Schubert’s signature and the words ‘Ehrenmitglied der Musik-Vereine zu Grätz un...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

117. Zweig MS 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): draft of overture with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Written in ink on systems of two staves. Trial stave rulings on ff. 1v and 2r. Contents as follows: ff. 1r, 2v, 2r (lower half). Overture. Tempo directions (f. 1r) ‘Maestoso moderato - Allegro maestoso’. Incomplete, consisting of bars 1-74 (f. 1r) and 164-256 (f. 2v, 2r lower portion), using b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

118. Zweig MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 153
Title:
Carl Friedrich Zelter: [‘Vorstand und Recht’], beginning ‘So lang man nüchtern ist’, four-part song in F for male voices (words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from West-östliches Divan)
Scope & Content:
1814, [1816?]. Autograph score. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves; the staves drawn freehand. On a single leaf. The upper two-thirds of the recto have the text of the poem written out by Goethe, and dated by him ‘26 Jul 1814’. Zelter’s setting, which itself bears no date, begins belo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1814-1816
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

119. Zweig MS 63

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 63
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1784-1791
Extent:
1 volume (i + 44 folios)

120. 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)