Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1016-1063
Title:: CLASS XXIII. ANTIQUITIES, WITH COLLECTIONS ON ANTIQUARIAN AND KINDRED SUBJECTS, CATALOGUES AND EXTRACTS OF MSS, ETC.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-18th century
Extent:: 48 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 7-8
Title:: FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3; late 18th or early 19th cent, circa 1970. Copies, in ink. The title is written on the second horn part (f. 1). This serenade is listed as by Haydn in Breitkopf & Härtel’s catalogue of 1768, but apparently no other manuscript sources of it are known. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:: Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Parts for Serenada, Hob.II/D3 by Franz Joseph Haydn, with score in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson: late 18th or early 19th cent.; circa 1970: Copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760-1975
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 12-13
Title:: GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790. Copy of the score, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves, in the same hand throughout, with a few annotations in pencil. For soloists, chorus, clarinets, bassoons, horns and strings. The opera was first performed in a one-act version with spoken dialogue at the Royal Palace a...
Scope & Content:: Giambattista Lorenzi, librettist: Giuseppe Carpani, writer of plays: Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, writer of plays: Giovanni Paisiello, composer: 'Nina', ossia 'La Pazza per Amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, to words by Giambattista Lorenzi after the translation by Giuseppe Carpani of 'Ni...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1790
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 16-17
Title:: MOZART: ‘Cosi fan tutte osia La Scuola degli amanti: Drama giocoso in due Atti Rappresentato nel Teatro di Corte a Vienna L’Anno 1790’ (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), K588; circa 1790-5. Copy, in Italian. Score, written in ink on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves to the page, with some pencil annotations in Tyson’s hand. The title page of Act 1 is inscribed ‘Si vende in Vienna presso Wencislao Sukowaty Editore di Musica, e Copista dell’ Imperial Teatro nella Piazza di St. Pietro Nro 554. i...
Scope & Content:: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist and poet: Jakob Klein, music copyist: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, partly in the hand of Jakob Klein: circa 1790-5: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1760-1840]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 1-131
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Music manuscripts from the collection of Stefan Zweig.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1671-1999]
Extent:: 131 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 132-200
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Literary and historical manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:: [1542-1940]
Extent:: 69 items

Search