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1. Zweig MS 42

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)

2. Zweig MS 87

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 87
Title:
Gaspare Spontini: Credo in G for two voices and obbligato solo organ
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Title on f. 1r: ‘Credo a / Due Voci con / L’organo solo obbligato / Di / Gaspare Spontini’, with, also in the composer’s hand at top right, ‘Originale’. Scored for organ (written on the single uppermost stave), Canto (in soprano clef), A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1793?-1795?
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

3. 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)

4. Zweig MS 97

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)

5. Zweig MS 76

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)

6. 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)

7. Zweig MS 44

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)

8. Zweig MS 98

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)

9. Zweig MS 96

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)

10. Zweig MS 78

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)