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Name Verdi, Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco, composer, 1813-1901 Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Level [40] File

1. Zweig MS 95

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 95
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Luisa Miller’, opera in three acts (libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller): album leaf with an extract from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Passage of 9 bars for Luisa (soprano), from the final section of her duet with her father, comprising the lines beginning ‘Andrem, raminghi e poveri’. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on sytems of two staves giving the vocal line and accompaniment. Marked ‘and[ant]e’ aga...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

2. Zweig MS 96

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 96
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Falstaff’, opera in three acts (libretto Arrigo Boito), 1893: draft in short score of 16 bars from Act III, part ii
Scope & Content:
In the hand of Arrigo Boito. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on systems of two staves giving vocal line and accompaniment (in the treble clef). Text in Italian. The passage begins 4 bars after fig. 50, and represents the revisions to the text and vocal line sung over the wedding m...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[Jan 1894-Feb 1894]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3. Zweig MS 97

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 97
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4 Feb 1859
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

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