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036-001945747 Digitised Content No Level [37] SubSeries

1. Zweig MS 22-23

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 22-23
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letters to Peter Joseph Simrock; 1861, [1865]
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1861-1865
Extent:
2 volumes

2. Zweig MS 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12-13
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Zweig MS 115-117

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

4. Zweig MS 119-120

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

5. Zweig MS 100-101

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

6. Zweig MS 64-67

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 64-67
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1777-1779
Extent:
4 items

7. Zweig MS 108-109

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

8. Zweig MS 89-92

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