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21. Zweig MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 51
Title:
Leopold Mozart: Divertimento ‘Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt’: part for [one of five] sleigh-bells, headed ‘Schlittengeleüth Ex.A’.
Scope & Content:
Contemporary copy, probably in the hand of Joseph Richard Estlinger. Written in ink on single staves on the recto of a single leaf. Below the heading are instructions for the player: ‘Intrada Tacet / wird 2 mahl gemacht’, ‘Presto Tacet’, ‘nach diesem Presto machen die Trompetten und Paucken ein ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1755]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

22. Zweig MS 114

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 114
Title:
Richard Wagner: Correspondence relating to Zweig MS 112
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Postcard from Wilhelm Tappert to Albert Cohn, Berlin, confirming the authenticity of Zweig MS 112, and with notes on the work’s composition; Berlin, 18 June 1886. f. 2r. Letter from the book dealer Albert Cohn to an unidentified correspondent (‘Ew. Hochgeboren’) about a Wag...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1886-1887
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

23. Zweig MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 68
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

24. Zweig MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 25
Title:
Ferruccio Busoni: ‘Indianisches Erntelied’ (Indian Harvest Song), for piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Music on ff. 2r and 3r only; f. 2r. headed ‘Indianische Erntelied / Erster Versuch einer Verwerthung für das Clavier’. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto vivace’ (f. 2r). Against the end of the last system on f. 3r is the date ‘12 April 1911...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
12 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

25. Zweig MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 43
Title:
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no. 2 (Piano Concerto), op. 36, no. 1, for piano and 12 solo instruments: draft of the first and last movements
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The last movement incomplete. In short and condensed score. Written in pencil and ink on systems of two to six staves. No tempo directions. In a small notebook, the two movements written from opposite ends of the volume. At some stage Hindemith wrote in titles for both movements, and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1924]
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

26. 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)

27. Zweig MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 9
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

28. 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)

29. Zweig MS 121

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 121
Title:
Richard Wagner: Notes and drafts, comprising translation into French of prose sketch for the opera ‘Die hohe Braut’, translations into French of text of three numbers from the opera ‘Der fliegende Holländer’, and notes on the ‘cornet à 3 pistons’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. As follows: ff. 1r, 3r and v. ‘Die hohe Braut’ (WWV 40), opera in 5 acts (libretto Wagner after Heinrich Koenig), [1835-1842]: translation of prose sketch; 1840. French. Written in brown ink, with autograph corrections and additions. ff. 2r, 1v. ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63),...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

30. Zweig MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 82
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘Schlachtlied’ (words F.G. Klopstock) for double male-voice choir (D 912)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Nicht zu geschwind, kraftvoll’ (f. 1r). Minor autograph corrections to music and text in ink in a number of places. Title ‘Schlachtlied. Von Klopstock. / Doppel=Chor.’, with date and signature ‘28. Febr....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
28 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 7 folios)