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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 95
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Luisa Miller’, opera in three acts (libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller): album leaf with an extract from Act III
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Passage of 9 bars for Luisa (soprano), from the final section of her duet with her father, comprising the lines beginning ‘Andrem, raminghi e poveri’. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on sytems of two staves giving the vocal line and accompaniment. Marked ‘and[ant]e’ aga...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Italian
Date Range:: 1849
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 96
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Falstaff’, opera in three acts (libretto Arrigo Boito), 1893: draft in short score of 16 bars from Act III, part ii
Scope & Content:: In the hand of Arrigo Boito. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on systems of two staves giving vocal line and accompaniment (in the treble clef). Text in Italian. The passage begins 4 bars after fig. 50, and represents the revisions to the text and vocal line sung over the wedding m...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [Jan 1894-Feb 1894]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 97
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the to...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1859
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 98
Title:: Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2 horns, 2 flutes and strings
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante’ (f. 1r); ‘Da Capo’ at end (f. 8v). ‘Wagenseil 761 [line over]’ is written in ink of a darker colour in the upper right margin of f. 1r, and the name ‘Arcid:[ucessa] Joanna’, in a different ink and hand, at...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1761
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 140
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXL. Gabriele D'Annunzio: poem 'La Laude di Dante'; circa 1904. Fair copy. Italian. See Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi, Istituto Nazionale per la Edizione di Tutti le Opere di Gabriele D'Annunzio, Book 2, Elettra (Verona, 1928), pp. 4-10. ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1904
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 167
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVII. Giacomo Leopardi: poem headed 'XXXVIII. Dal greco di Simonide'; early 19th cent. Draft. Italian. See Tutti le Opere di Giacomo Leopardi, ed. Francesco Flora, 'Le Poesie e le Prose', vol. I (Milan, 1945), p. 135. ff. 2. 133 x 97mm. Giacomo Leopardi, poet: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 174
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIV. Benito Mussolini: article 'Responsibilità'; [1921]. Fair copy. Italian. ff. 4. 233 x 214mm. (f. 1); 232 x 149mm. (f. 2); 213 x 138mm. (f. 3); 221 x 186mm. (f. 4). Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator: Article 'Responsibilità' by Benito Mussolini: 1921: Ital:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1921]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 206
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Giorgio Vasari: account of the life of the painter Luca Signorelli
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy from Le Vite dei piu Eccellente Architetti, Pittori e Scultori Italiani (1550). Italian. With a typewritten English translation (ff. 3-7), and the relevant pages removed from a later printed edition (ff. 8-11). Presented by the Trustees of the Stefan Zweig Collection, 27 Sept. 19...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [16th century]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 215
Title:: Autograph book of Ignaz Moscheles
Scope & Content:: Autograph book of the pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. Most entries are written directly into the volume and are by musicians contributing musical quotations or complete short pieces. In addition, a number of items, including letters and drawings, are inserted. Includes inserted items dated...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1764-1869
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

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