Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts / Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 89-92
Title:: Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1933-1935
Extent:: 4 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 100-101
Title:: Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft in short score and fragmentary full score.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1832]
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 108-109
Title:: Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1836]-1837
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 115-117
Title:: Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1853-1860
Extent:: 3 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 119-120
Title:: Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:: [1834, 1839-1840]. Autograph.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1834-1840
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 133-135
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CXXXIII- CXXXV. Honoré de Balzac: literary manuscripts and letter; 1823-before 1842. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1823-before 1842
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 152-155
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLII-CLV. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: literary manuscripts, etc.; 1808-circa 1830. Four volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1808-c 1830
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 160-161
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLX, CLXI. Friedrich Hölderlin: manuscripts of poems; circa 1798-1800. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: c 1798-1800
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 179-180
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXXIX, CLXXX. Rainer Maria Rilke: prose narrative and letter; 1899, 1920. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1899-1920
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 184-186
Title:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXXXIV-CLXXXVI. Romain Rolland: literary works; early 20th cent. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 3 items

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