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2. Zweig MS 1-218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 1-218
- Title:
- Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 1538-1936
- Extent:
- 205 items
3. Zweig MS 16
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 16
- Title:
- Vincenzo Bellini: ‘Bianca e Fernando’, opera in two acts (libretto Felice Romani, after D. Gilardoni), 1828: autograph sketch for ‘O contento desiato’, the final section of Filippo’s aria in Act I
- Scope & Content:
- Vocal line only, written in ink on a single stave, with the words beneath for the opening section and at the end. The role is for basso cantante, and though here originally written without clef or key signature, is notated in G in the bass clef; a soprano C clef has been inserted before it in a ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1828
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
4. Zweig MS 18
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 18
- Title:
- Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14 November 1796
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. Written in ink; on paper with legal stamps, showing the seal of Charles IV and the year, at the top of ff. 1r and 2v. As follows: f. 1r and v. Thematic catalogne, headed ‘Catalogo delle opere da me Luigi Boccherini cedute in tutta Proprietá al Sig[no]r Ignazio Pleyel’ (f. 1r), with,...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 14 Nov 1796
- Extent:
- 1 volume (2 folios)
5. Zweig MS 28
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 28
- Title:
- Domenico Cimarosa: ‘Giovinotti mentre in volto’, rondo for soprano and strings
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Headed ‘Rondo’ in left upper margin of f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘And[ant]e’; the name of the character singing given as ‘Candida’ (f. 1r). Scored for violins, viola and unfigured bass; vocal part in the soprano clef. ‘Del Sig[no]r D. ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
6. Zweig MS 29
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 29
- Title:
- Domenico Cimarosa: Fragment, apparently from a duet or trio in D
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on a single system of ten staves on either side of a single leaf. In common time, with the text ‘a vostr’ordine potete entrar’ (recto), ‘Quando mi trova gia maritata sara da ridere col mio Papa’ (verso). Although three lines are left for the vocal parts, only...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (1 folio)
7. Zweig MS 34
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 34
- Title:
- Christoph Willibald Gluck: [‘I lamenti d’amore’], cantata beginning ‘Misero! e che farò! e come, e con qual cor i figli abbraccerò’ for soprano and strings (words, Raniero de Calzabigi), arranged by the composer from the aria for Admeto (tenor) ‘Misero! e che farò’ from act III of his opera ‘Alceste’
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. In C minor. Tempo directions ‘Andante un poco - Recit. - lento - presto - lento - presto - moderato - andante - Presto - Lento - Presto - Lento - Presto’. The music and text begin as in the first printed edition of the opera, though...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- [1767?]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (8 folios)
8. Zweig MS 36
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 36
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 2 folios)
9. Zweig MS 37
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 37
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1721
- Extent:
- 1 volume (4 folios)
10. Zweig MS 39
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 39
- Title:
- Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows: ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- 1792
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 43 folios)