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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 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)

4. 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)