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1. 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)

2. Zweig MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 57
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, opera in four acts (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), 1786: draft of part of Cherubino’s Act I aria ‘Non so più cosa son’ (K492, no. 6)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Fragmentary draft in score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegro vivace’ (f. 1r). Contains the opening 34 bars; all strings are scored in for the first 6 bars (f. 1r), thereafter only the vocal and bass lines are entered. Mozart’s headings ‘Atto 1mo’, ‘Ari...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1785-1786]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

3. Zweig MS 60

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 60
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in E flat, for two violins, two violas and cello (K614)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Movement I (ff. 1r-6v), ‘All[egr]o di molto’; movement II (ff. 7r-10v) ‘Andante’; movement III (ff. 11r-12v) ‘Menuetto: Allegretto’ and ‘Trio’; movement IV (ff. 13r-18v) ‘All[egr]o’. Headed by Mozart ‘Quintetto:’ (f. 1r) and with hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1791]
Extent:
1 volume (18 folios)

4. Zweig MS 62

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 62
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio), 1791: duettino ‘Deh prendi un dolce amplesso’, for Sesto and Annio, from Act I (K621, no. 3).
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Headed ‘Duettino.’, with ‘No. 3’ at left, and ‘Atto I’ at right, all in Mozart’s hand in upper margin of f.1r. ‘No. 2’ added in upper margin of f. 1r in brown crayon. Other additions include, at the end (f. 2r) in ink, a bar count an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1791]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

5. Zweig MS 140

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

6. Zweig MS 167

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

7. Zweig MS 206

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