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Container Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-131 Name Beethoven, Ludwig, composer, 1770-1827 Level [40] File

1. Zweig MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 6
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for cello and piano, op. 69: sketches for movements III and IV
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil on ff. 1v and 2r. The sketches are mostly on single staves, with piano or ‘cello indicated above at relevant points on ff. 1v, 2r and v. The number 350 added later in pencil at the bottom right of f. 1. For accompanying note of provenance see Zweig MS ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1807-1808]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

2. Zweig MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 8
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1809-1810]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3. Zweig MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 9
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
Scope & Content:
Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

4. Zweig MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 10
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: [Ariette] ‘Der Kuss’, song with piano accompaniment (words Christian Felix Weisse), op. 128
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves; voice line in the treble clef. In A, marked ‘Allegretto’ and headed ‘Mit Lebhaftigkeit jedoch nicht in zu geschwindem Zeitmass, u[nd] scherzend vorgetragen’. Dated by Beethoven ‘1822 in decemb.’ at the head of f. 1r, and with his commen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

5. Zweig MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 11
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Three-part canon ‘Kurz ist der Schmerz’ (words Friedrich von Schiller, from Die Jungfrau von Orleans), WoO 166
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on the recto of a single leaf; staves drawn freehand by Beethoven. The music on five single staves with the text beneath. Dated ‘Wien am / 3ten März / 1815’ at the foot, with the signed dedication ‘Mögten sie doch lieber Spohr / überall, wo sie wahre Kunst und / wahre K...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1815
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

6. Zweig MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 14
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1792-1794]
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

7. Zweig MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 15
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried Herder, with brief observations on nature by Beethoven
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The leaves have been folded twice, marking out two or four compartments to which Beethoven has restricted his notes on the last page. Contents as follows: f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die laute Klage’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Published...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1815?]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

8. Zweig MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 30
Title:
Josef Danhauser: Drawing of Beethoven on his deathbed, 1827
Scope & Content:
Copy. In pencil. Shows Beethoven’s head turned to the left and resting on a pillow, a cover drawn up beneath his chin. With copy of Danhauser’s signature and the date 1827 diagonally to the left. Below is the faint pencil inscription ‘Beethoven / Den 28ten März an seinem / Todtenbette gezeichnet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[after 1844]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)