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71. Zweig MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 32
Title:
Léo Delibes: ‘Lakmé’, opera in three acts (libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille), 1883: duet ‘J’ai marché sous les hautes fougères’ for Gèrald and Frédéric
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Vocal score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Corrections in ink throughout. Tempo direction (at bar 3) ‘Moderato’. Comprising an additional scene, replacing spoken dialogue, headed (f. 1r) ‘No.18 (Nouveau) Scène (G)’, with a note that the first bar replaces the last bar of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
25 Aug 1883
Extent:
1 volume (7 folios)

72. Zweig MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 78
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘Misero pargoletto’ (text Pietro Metastasio, from Demofoonte), aria in B flat for high voice and keyboard accompaniment (D 42)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Partly score, partly vocal line only. Written in ink, on single staves and on systems of two and three staves. With corrections in ink and pencil, some apparently in the hand of Antonio Salieri, with whom Schubert studied. In two versions; one of them, less fully realised, but setting...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[Sep 1813]
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

73. Zweig MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 80
Title:
Franz Schubert: Dance (‘Deutscher’) in A flat for piano (D 365, no. 2), with the beginning of Evangelium Johannis 6 (D 607)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written on recto and verso of a single leaf, as follows: f. 1r. Evangelium Johannis 6, vers. 55-58 (text in German from St. John’s Gospel in Luther’s translation), for voice with figured bass accompaniment; [1818]. Bars 1-33 only. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Headed ‘Evan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Mar 1818
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

74. Zweig MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 28
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: ‘Giovinotti mentre in volto’, rondo for soprano and strings
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Headed ‘Rondo’ in left upper margin of f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘And[ant]e’; the name of the character singing given as ‘Candida’ (f. 1r). Scored for violins, viola and unfigured bass; vocal part in the soprano clef. ‘Del Sig[no]r D. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

75. Zweig MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 40
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1794-1795
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

76. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

77. Zweig MS 59

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)

78. Zweig MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 110
Title:
Richard Wagner: Sketches for ‘La tombe dit à la rose’ (WWV 56), ‘Extase’ (WWV 54) and ‘Attente’ (WWV 55), for voice and piano (all to words by Victor Hugo)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of one or two staves. Folio 1r has many trial strokes with a rastrum. As follows: f. 1r. Vocal line and text of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’; written with the page inverted. Interspersed with untexted sketches on a single stave for ‘Attente’, using the page the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

79. Zweig MS 127

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 127
Title:
Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Oberon’, opera in three acts (libretto by James Robinson Planché after C.M. Wieland): sketches for part of Overture and of Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph short or condensed score. Written in ink on systems of two, three or four staves. As follows: f. 1r. ‘O Araby, dear Araby’ [no. 16]. Headed ‘Song Fatima’. f. 1v. ‘Mourn thou poor heart’ [no. 19]. Headed ‘Cavatina’. With annotations in red crayon and in pencil. f. 1v. Overture, eight ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1826
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

80. Zweig MS 122

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 122
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Rienzi’ (WWV 49), grand opera in 5 acts (libretto, the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1837-1840: instructions for staging for the Dresden performances
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on both sides of a single leaf, with autograph deletions and additions. Arranged under headings of acts and vocal numbers. Numbered in pencil 160 at the head and 327 at the foot of the recto. The memorandum in this manuscript is principally concerned with ways o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1841]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)