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51. Zweig MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 21
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Canon for four voices ‘Ans Auge des Liebsten’ (words Friedrich Rückert), op. 113, no. 9: on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in black ink. Headed ‘à 4’ and signed at foot ‘Wien, Jan: 1873. Joh[anne]s Brahms’. In C; the two parts together on a single line preceded by bass and tenor clefs. The date of composition of this work is not known.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

52. Zweig MS 128

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 128
Title:
Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6, [1909]: fair copy made by the composer for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of between five and 32 staves. Bar lines ruled in pencil, with corrections, additions and marginal notes in pencil. The pieces occupy the following folios: ff. 1-2v. I.; tempo direction ‘Etwas bewegte Achtel’. Unpitched rhythmic sketches in penci...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1911]
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 17 folios)

53. Zweig MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 52
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in D minor (K173), movement IV only
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. No tempo direction. Version comprising 84 bars, shorter than that finally published. Names of the instruments are indicated in ink against the first system (f. 1r) [by J.A. André]. Other later annotations in ink to f. 1r are: heading [in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1773]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

54. Zweig MS 124

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 124
Title:
Richard Wagner: Letter to Baron Ferdinand von Biedenfeld; Dresden, 17 January 1849
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink in italic script. Text on f. 1r and v; address f. 2v. Signed and dated by Wagner at foot of f. 1v. Weimar and Dresden postage franks, cancellation [?] ‘26’ in red crayon, and remnants of seal, all on f. 2v. Numbered 23 in pencil at top left of f. 1r. In this we...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

55. Zweig MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 80
Title:
Franz Schubert: Dance (‘Deutscher’) in A flat for piano (D 365, no. 2), with the beginning of Evangelium Johannis 6 (D 607)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written on recto and verso of a single leaf, as follows: f. 1r. Evangelium Johannis 6, vers. 55-58 (text in German from St. John’s Gospel in Luther’s translation), for voice with figured bass accompaniment; [1818]. Bars 1-33 only. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Headed ‘Evan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Mar 1818
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

56. Zweig MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 40
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1794-1795
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

57. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

58. Zweig MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 59
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five contredanses for flute, strings (2 violins, cello and bass) and drum (K609)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four or six staves. Headed by Mozart ‘Contredanses’ (f. 1r), with the nos. 1-5 at the head of the individual dances. No.1: f. 1r; no. 2: f. 1v; no. 3: f. 2r and v; no. 4: ff. 2v, 3r; no. 5: f. 3v. No. 4 is in ‘da capo’ form, with three alternati...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1787-1788?]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

59. Zweig MS 122

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 122
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Rienzi’ (WWV 49), grand opera in 5 acts (libretto, the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1837-1840: instructions for staging for the Dresden performances
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on both sides of a single leaf, with autograph deletions and additions. Arranged under headings of acts and vocal numbers. Numbered in pencil 160 at the head and 327 at the foot of the recto. The memorandum in this manuscript is principally concerned with ways o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1841]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

60. Zweig MS 72

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 72
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: ‘La belle Hélène’, operetta in three acts (libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 15 to 24 staves. With corrections and additions in ink, some on inserted leaves, and a few pencil annotations also in autograph. Repeated passages are usually not entered in full and are instead indicated by numbered or lettered bars. In some nu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1864]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 205 folios)