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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)

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)

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)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 41
Title:: Joseph Haydn: Variations in G on the anthem ‘Gott erhalte den Kaiser’, for keyboard; theme and Variation I
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. The theme occupies the bottom four staves, and Variation I the upper eight staves. No key signature is given, and tempo directions and expression marks are also absent. On the verso is a note of authenticity, in I...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1797-1799]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 42
Title:: Michael Haydn: String quartet in B flat, ‘Divertimento Notturno’ (Perger 125)
Scope & Content:: Incomplete, lacking the last 100 bars of the final ‘Rondeau’. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Headed in upper margin of f. 1r ‘Divertimento notturno. à 4. 2 Violini, Viola e Basso.’, with the signature ‘di G. Michele Haydn m[anu] p[ropr]ia’. Comprising the followi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1785
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 44
Title:: Nicolò Jommelli: Aria ‘Per voi Donzellette sospiro’, for bass voice and orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 10 staves. In D; accompaniment scored for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 flutes, 2 horns, viola [?] (marked to play with the bass throughout), and unfigured bass. In 3/4 time; the end is followed by a single bar of the vocal line in 2/4, with the text ‘B...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Italian
Date Range:: between 1754-1768
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 48
Title:: Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1903]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 76
Title:: Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata, ‘Ombre tacite e sole’, for soprano solo, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of four and five staves. The bass is figured throughout. Signed ‘Cav[alier]e Aless[andr]o Scarlatti’ at top left, and headed ‘Cantata p[er] / Camera / Sopr[an]o Solo / con Strom[en]ti d’Arco. / 31 8bre 1716’ at left of first system (f. 1r). The wo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 31 Oct 1716
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 78
Title:: Franz Schubert: ‘Misero pargoletto’ (text Pietro Metastasio, from Demofoonte), aria in B flat for high voice and keyboard accompaniment (D 42)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Partly score, partly vocal line only. Written in ink, on single staves and on systems of two and three staves. With corrections in ink and pencil, some apparently in the hand of Antonio Salieri, with whom Schubert studied. In two versions; one of them, less fully realised, but setting...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [Sep 1813]
Extent:: 1 volume (4 folios)

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