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11. Zweig MS 119-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 119-120
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:
[1834, 1839-1840]. Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1834-1840
Extent:
2 volumes

12. Zweig MS 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 131
Title:
Carl Michael Ziehrer: Musical quotation on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Unidentified; 4 bars in G major in 3/4 time. Written in ink, on a single stave drawn free-hand, on the recto of a single leaf. Signed ‘C M. Ziehrer / Wien 21/12 897’ [line over]. Later annotations in pencil include numbers from Hinterberger catalogues 18 and XX.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

13. Zweig MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 14
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1792-1794]
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

14. 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)

15. 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)

16. 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)

17. Zweig MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 46
Title:
Conradin Kreutzer: Extract from an orchestral work featuring a theme from Rossini’s opera Tancredi
Scope & Content:
Incomplete, comprises 22 bars on 2 pages, on either side of a single leaf, numbered ‘2’ at top right of recto. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Not from the beginning of the work, so lacking title, tempo direction and key- and time-signatures, but headed, in another ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

18. Zweig MS 64-67

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 64-67
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1777-1779
Extent:
4 items

19. Zweig MS 108-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108-109
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
2 volumes

20. Zweig MS 130

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 130
Title:
Hugo Wolf: ‘Gesang Weylas’ (words Eduard Mörike), song for voice and piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of three staves, on a single leaf; the single system on the verso contains the concluding four bars. Headed ‘Gesang Weyla’s’. Without time signature, tempo direction ‘Langsam u[nd]. feierlich.’; tempo direction and dynamic markings and phrasing are all added ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)