STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVII. Hermann Hesse: poems 'Sommer 1933'; 1933. Typewritten, with an autograph title-page (f. 1), autograph titles to the poems and some watercolour illustrations (ff. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14). German. See Hermann Hesse, Gesammelte Dichtungen, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1952),...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVIII. Adolf Hitler: outline in note form for a speech made in Berlin; [1928]. Draft. German. ff. 13. 330 x 210mm. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor: Outline for a speech by Adolf Hitler: 1928: Germ: Autogr. draft.
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...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Poem 'Stuttgart' [1800-1801]
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Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Folio 1 annotated by other hands as described above. An elegy of six stanzas with the title spelled ‘Stutgard’. Each strophe is formed of nine distiches in groups of three. The poem reflects the celebration of autumn in a landscape through which the wande...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
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Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away). Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798. Both of eight lines in two stanzas. 'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXX. Letter to A. Wolfenstein; 1920. German. f. 1. 175 x 135mm. Rainer Maria Rilke, poet: A. Wolfenstein: Letter to A. Wolfenstein from Rainer Maria Rilke: 1920: Germ.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIX. Prose narrative 'Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke'; 1899 (see f. 1). Fair copy. German. See R. M. Rilke, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4 (Leipzig, 1930), 'Schriften in Prosa', pp. 5-34. Zweig's note of gift by the author (f. i). ff. i+27. B...
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)
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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...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLII. Fragment of Act 1 of 'Faust, Part 2'; circa 1830. Fair copy. German. The fragment contains lines 5884-5935. See J. W. von Goethe, Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche, ed. E. Beutler, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1950), pp. 328-330. Note of presentation to Franz G...