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Container Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-131 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

91. Zweig MS 98

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 98
Title:
Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2 horns, 2 flutes and strings
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante’ (f. 1r); ‘Da Capo’ at end (f. 8v). ‘Wagenseil 761 [line over]’ is written in ink of a darker colour in the upper right margin of f. 1r, and the name ‘Arcid:[ucessa] Joanna’, in a different ink and hand, at...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1761
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

92. Zweig MS 99

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 99
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in E minor to Ernst Raupach’s König Enzio (WWV 24)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft in piano score. Written in ink on systems of two staves, with additions in red ink (f. 2v). Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Allegro’ (f. 1r); ‘Fine’ at end (f. 2v). The draft of the Overture ends on the fourth system on f. 2v; below this are brief sketches for the Concert Overture ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1831-1832]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

93. Zweig MS 100-101

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 100-101
Title:
Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft in short score and fragmentary full score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1832]
Extent:
2 volumes

94. Zweig MS 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 102
Title:
Richard Wagner: Symphony in C (WWV 29): piano duet version of part of movement I
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Incomplete, breaking off after 116 bars of the Allegro. Written in ink on systems of four staves. ‘Sinfonia’ at head of f. 1r. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto e maestoso (f. 1r) - Allegro con brio’ (f. 1v). The last two bars are written in the ‘primo’ part only, and the lower two sy...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1832-1833?]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

95. Zweig MS 103

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 103
Title:
Richard Wagner: Music for ‘Beim Antritt des neuen Jahr 1835’, allegorical festival play in one act by Wilhelm Schmale (WWV 36): autograph draft of Overture and two choral numbers, nos. 3 and 5
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Short (piano) score, and piano vocal score. Written in ink, the Overture on systems of two staves, the vocal numbers on systems of up to five staves. Contents: ff. 1r-2v. Overture; headed (f. 1r) ‘No: 1: Ouverture’. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Allegro assai’ (f. 1r). f. 3r and v. [N...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1834]
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

96. Zweig MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 104
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ or ‘Die Novize von Palermo’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto by the composer, after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-6: incomplete draft of Overture, sketches for nos. 6, 7 and 11, and unidentified sketches
Scope & Content:
Autograph short score. Written mostly in ink on one stave or systems of two staves, partly in pencil (f. 3v), and with annotations in red ink (f. 2r, v). Trial stave rulings in lower margin of f. 1r. The identifiable sketches, using cue numbers from the published full score, are as follows: ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1835]
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

97. Zweig MS 105

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 105
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’: modern transcription of texted passages from Zweig MS 104
Scope & Content:
Comprising sketch for Isabella’s aria from No. 6, Finale to Act I, from Zweig MS 104, ff. 5r, 6v. Written in dark blue ink on single staves and systems of two staves. The hand is the same as that in Zweig MSS 107, ff. 2 - 11, and 111.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

98. Zweig MS 106

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 106
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in C, ‘Polonia’ (WWV 39), 1836: piano reduction, with sketch for song ‘Les adieux de Marie Stuart’ (words J.P. de Béranger) for voice and piano (WWV 61); [early 1840]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. As follows: ff. 1r-4r. Overture, headed ‘Polonia. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r); tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Tempo 1mo (f. 1r) - Allegretto - Allo: molto vivace (f. 1v) - Allegretto (f. 3v) - Presto’ (f. 4r). Copying instructions for bars or sections t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

99. Zweig MS 107

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 107
Title:
Richard Wagner: Papers and transcriptions relating to Zweig MS 106
Scope & Content:
Written in dark blue or black ink. As follows: f. 1r. Note on Zweig MS 106, and attestation that it is in Wagner’s hand, signed Wilhelm Tappert; 1 Dec. 1889. ff. 2r-6v, 7. Score of Overture, with I and II violins, cello and bass parts only; a shortened [or incomplete] version, apparently sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

100. Zweig MS 108-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108-109
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
2 volumes