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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 54
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March for orchestra in C (K408, no. 1/383e)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of seven staves. Headed ‘Marcia’, and signed ‘di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart m[anu] p[ropria]’ at top right, on f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘Maestoso’. ‘No. 1’ beneath the title is presumably a later addition; other additions are the date 1782 (altered from...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1782?]
Extent:: 1 volume (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 55
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of six staves. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-5v. ‘All[egr]o’; this and the heading ‘Concerto per il Corno Solo’ on f. 1r are apparently not in Mozart’s hand. ff. 6r-7v. ‘Larghetto’. Headed ‘Romance’, and signed at top right ‘di Wolfgango ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1787?]
Extent:: 1 volume (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 56
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Song ‘Das Veilchen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano (K476)
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. In G; tempo direction ‘Allegretto:’. Vocal line written in the soprano clef (apparently written over a treble clef); the parts labelled ‘Singstim[m]e.’ and ‘Klavier:’ against the first system (f. 1r). The heading ‘Das veilchen.’ ‘von gö...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1785
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 57
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, opera in four acts (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), 1786: draft of part of Cherubino’s Act I aria ‘Non so più cosa son’ (K492, no. 6)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Fragmentary draft in score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegro vivace’ (f. 1r). Contains the opening 34 bars; all strings are scored in for the first 6 bars (f. 1r), thereafter only the vocal and bass lines are entered. Mozart’s headings ‘Atto 1mo’, ‘Ari...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1785-1786]
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 58
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: [1788]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 59
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five contredanses for flute, strings (2 violins, cello and bass) and drum (K609)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four or six staves. Headed by Mozart ‘Contredanses’ (f. 1r), with the nos. 1-5 at the head of the individual dances. No.1: f. 1r; no. 2: f. 1v; no. 3: f. 2r and v; no. 4: ff. 2v, 3r; no. 5: f. 3v. No. 4 is in ‘da capo’ form, with three alternati...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1787-1788?]
Extent:: 1 volume (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 60
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in E flat, for two violins, two violas and cello (K614)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Movement I (ff. 1r-6v), ‘All[egr]o di molto’; movement II (ff. 7r-10v) ‘Andante’; movement III (ff. 11r-12v) ‘Menuetto: Allegretto’ and ‘Trio’; movement IV (ff. 13r-18v) ‘All[egr]o’. Headed by Mozart ‘Quintetto:’ (f. 1r) and with hi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1791]
Extent:: 1 volume (18 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 61
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Rondo in C minor/major for armonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (K617)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 6 staves. The movements are ‘Adagio’ (ff. 1r-2v), and [Rondo] ‘Allegretto’ (ff. 2v-8r). The names of the instruments against the first system on f. 1r include ‘Harmonique’ for the glass harmonica. Later annotations in ink to f. 1r are ‘Von Breit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1791]
Extent:: 1 volume (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 62
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio), 1791: duettino ‘Deh prendi un dolce amplesso’, for Sesto and Annio, from Act I (K621, no. 3).
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Headed ‘Duettino.’, with ‘No. 3’ at left, and ‘Atto I’ at right, all in Mozart’s hand in upper margin of f.1r. ‘No. 2’ added in upper margin of f. 1r in brown crayon. Other additions include, at the end (f. 2r) in ink, a bar count an...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1791]
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 69
Title:: Contract of marriage between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Constanze Weber
Scope & Content:: The marriage contract is written in ink in a notary's hand and signed on the reverse by Constanze Weber, her mother Maria Caecilia Weber, her witness Johann Carl Cetto von Kronstorff and her guardian Johann Thorwart, and by Mozart (‘Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’) and his witness Franz Gilowsky. With im...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 3 Aug 1782
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

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