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101. 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)

102. Zweig MS 111

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 111
Title:
Richard Wagner: Transcriptions of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’ and ‘Extase’ from Zweig MS 110
Scope & Content:
Written in dark blue ink. The hand is the same at that in Zweig MSS 105 and 107, ff. 2-11. As follows: ff. 1r, 2r. Texts of the two poems. f. 3r. Transcription of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’. On systems of three staves, but the accompaniment not filled in. ff. 3v-4v. Transcription of ‘Extase’...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

103. Zweig MS 112

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 112
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Descendons gaiement la courtille’ (text Dumersan?) (WWV 65), chorus for insertion in the vaudeville La descente de la courtille by Marion Dumersan and Dupeutys
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Draft in piano vocal score. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Two-part chorus, written on a single stave labelled ‘Choeur.’ against the first system on f. 1r, the other two staves designated ‘Orchestre.’. Indications of orchestration are also given in this system. Tem...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1841?]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

104. Zweig MS 113

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 113
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Oui, dès ce moment’, duet from Fromental Halévy’s opera Le Guitarrero, arranged by Wagner for quartet of flute or first violin, second violin, viola and ‘cello (WWV 62D)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of four and five staves. Where the flute part is not written out separately the top line of the system is designated ‘Fl: ou 1er V.’ On a single leaf, paginated 43, 44. Against the beginning of the music (f. 1r) is written ‘No: 13. / Duo et Final....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1841]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

105. Zweig MS 114

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 114
Title:
Richard Wagner: Correspondence relating to Zweig MS 112
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Postcard from Wilhelm Tappert to Albert Cohn, Berlin, confirming the authenticity of Zweig MS 112, and with notes on the work’s composition; Berlin, 18 June 1886. f. 2r. Letter from the book dealer Albert Cohn to an unidentified correspondent (‘Ew. Hochgeboren’) about a Wag...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1886-1887
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

106. Zweig MS 115-117

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 115-117
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1853-1860
Extent:
3 volumes

107. Zweig MS 118

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 118
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Die Feen’ (WWV 32), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Carlo Goldoni), 1833-4: draft of dialogue
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink, with corrections and additions also in autograph. Headed ‘Feen: Dialoge’ (f. 1r). The scenes are Act I, sc. 2 and 4 (ff. 1-3v), Act II, sc. 3 (ff. 3v-4v), and Act III, sc. 5, incomplete (f. 4v). Lacking Act III, sc. 3 of those scenes with dialogue. The leaves are...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1834]
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

108. Zweig MS 119-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 119-120
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:
[1834, 1839-1840]. Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1834-1840
Extent:
2 volumes

109. Zweig MS 121

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 121
Title:
Richard Wagner: Notes and drafts, comprising translation into French of prose sketch for the opera ‘Die hohe Braut’, translations into French of text of three numbers from the opera ‘Der fliegende Holländer’, and notes on the ‘cornet à 3 pistons’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. As follows: ff. 1r, 3r and v. ‘Die hohe Braut’ (WWV 40), opera in 5 acts (libretto Wagner after Heinrich Koenig), [1835-1842]: translation of prose sketch; 1840. French. Written in brown ink, with autograph corrections and additions. ff. 2r, 1v. ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63),...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

110. 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)