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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 204
Title:: Franz Schubert: 'Auflösung', D.807 (words, J. Mayrhofer) and 'Blondel zu Marien', D.626 (words, anon), for voice and piano, from Franz Schubert's nachgelassene musikalische Dichtungen für Gesang und Pianoforte. Lieferung 34. Wien: Bey A. Diabelli & Comp., [1842]. Auflösung. [D 807.] Gedicht von J. Mayrhofer. Blondel zu Marien. [D 626. Text anon.] In Musik gesetzt für eine singstimme mit Begleitung des Piano Forte ... Nachlass No 34. Wien: bei Ant. Diabelli und Comp., [1842?] [Franz Sch...
Scope & Content:: Printed score. Publication advertised in the Wiener Zeitung of 23 June 1842. The manuscript copy of Blondel zu Marien in the Witteczek-Spaun Collection, now in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna, names Grillparzer as the author of the text, but this may be a later addition. Nottebohm, The...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1842?]
Extent:: 1 volume (i folio + 11 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 205
Title:: Franz Schubert: Mirjams Siegesgesang [D 942]. Gedicht von Grillparzer. Sopran Solo mit Chor, mit Begleitung des Pianoforte ... 136tes Werk. Dem Herrn Hofrathe Joseph Witeczek hochachtungsvoll gewidmet von den Verlegern Ant. Diabelli & Co. Wien: bei Ant. Diabelli u. Comp.
Scope & Content:: Printed score.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 volume (43 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 206
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Giorgio Vasari: account of the life of the painter Luca Signorelli
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy from Le Vite dei piu Eccellente Architetti, Pittori e Scultori Italiani (1550). Italian. With a typewritten English translation (ff. 3-7), and the relevant pages removed from a later printed edition (ff. 8-11). Presented by the Trustees of the Stefan Zweig Collection, 27 Sept. 19...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [16th century]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 207
Title:: Sketchbook of Josef Teltscher, including drawings of Beethoven on his deathbed
Scope & Content:: The notebook includes sketches, portraits (with some sitters named) and drawings finished to varying degrees, in pencil, with colour added to some. The items in pencil alone include two views of Beethoven's deathbed, and one very rough sketch of the scene. The notebook is listed in Zweig MS 214 ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 208
Title:: Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Stephan von Breuning
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in pencil on light brown course paper. Originally folded in two. The letter reads: f. 1r: Wenn du vieleicht / über die Glacis heute / spazieren gehst findest / du mich swischen 4 / u. 5 uhr. f. 1v: Für Herrn / Hof-Sekretär / von Breuning.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: between 1805 and May 1813
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 209
Title:: Ludwig van Beethoven: Kitchen accounts
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written on both sides in ink and pencil. Folio 1r has accounts for 23, 24, 26 and 27 July. The items are listed in ink with the price marked next to them, and the total is marked below in pencil. Folio 1v has the list for 25 July and other accounts marked in pencil, upside-down. Folio...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: before 1827
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 210
Title:: Ludwig van Beethoven: Laundry list
Scope & Content:: Beethoven's last laundry list, with the quantity listed next to each item. Written in pencil on the right column of the recto and the upper left column of the verso. Laundry items listed include: 'Hemden 12, Leintücher 10, Handtüchen 8'. Marked on verso in red crayon 'das letzte Wäschzettel' and...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: c 1827
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 211
Title:: Announcement of Beethoven's death in the form of an invitation to his funeral
Scope & Content:: [27 March 1827]. Printed. Printed on thin paper. Invitation reads: 'Einladung / zu / Ludwig van Beethoven's / Leichenbegängniss, / welches am 29. März um 3 Uhr Nachmittags Statt finden wird. / Man versammelt sich in der Wohnung des Verstorbenen im Schwarzspanier-hause Nr. 200, / am Glacis vor de...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 212
Title:: Itemised receipt of expenses for Beethoven’s funeral
Scope & Content:: “Quittung über die Beiträge zur Leichenbegängnies des Wohlgebohrnen berühmten Tondichters sellig Herrn Ludwig von Beethovens”. In the hand of the “bürgerlich-magistratischen Konductsansagers” Andreas Zeller. The document is listed in Zweig MS 214 (f. 15, item M) which includes a transcription of ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 31 Mar 1827
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 213
Title:: List of those contributing to a collection for Beethoven's servants after his death, with receipts from two servants
Scope & Content:: April-May 1827. Written in ink. The documents are listed in Zweig MS 214 (f. 16, item N) which includes a detailed description by Zweig and identification of most donors listed in the 'Ansuchen' document. f. 1: Donation request ('Ansuchen'). Written in ink in the hand of Tobias Haslinger who a...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 4 folios

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