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81. Zweig MS 85

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 85
Title:
Robert Schumann: ‘Beim Abschied zu singen’ (text E. von Feuchtersleben), for chorus and wind ensemble, op. 84
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft in short score. Written in ink on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Text begins ‘Es ist bestimmt in Gothes Rath’. Headed ‘Lied zum Abschied’ at top left and dated ‘7 Mai 47.’ at top right of f. 1r. With indication of instrumentation above the first system on f. 1r...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
7 May 1847
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

82. Zweig MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 86
Title:
Gaspare Spontini: ‘Olympie’, opera in three acts, second version (libretto by Dieulafoy and Briffaut after Voltaire, revised by E.T.A. Hoffman), 1821: chorus ‘Ciel! Il expire’ with following recitative for the Hièrophante and Cassandra, from Act III, scene viii
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 16 staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante un poco sostenuto’ (f. 1r). Staves extended into the right margin by the composer on f. 2r. The recitative is given in a shorter version than that found in the published score, and the parts for the two ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

83. Zweig MS 87

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 87
Title:
Gaspare Spontini: Credo in G for two voices and obbligato solo organ
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Title on f. 1r: ‘Credo a / Due Voci con / L’organo solo obbligato / Di / Gaspare Spontini’, with, also in the composer’s hand at top right, ‘Originale’. Scored for organ (written on the single uppermost stave), Canto (in soprano clef), A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1793?-1795?
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

84. Zweig MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 88
Title:
Johann Strauss, the elder: ‘Redoute-Quadrille’, op.158
Scope & Content:
Possibly not autograph. Full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 staves. Music begins f. 1v. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 clarinets, oboe, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, side drum, 2 trombones, and strings. An extra stave is added in ink and pencil beneath the system on f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1843]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

85. Zweig MS 89-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89-92
Title:
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
4 volumes

86. Zweig MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 93
Title:
Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2 Dec 1910
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

87. Zweig MS 94

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 94
Title:
Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
25 Sep 1919-11 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (121 pages + xxxiii folios)

88. 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)

89. 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)

90. 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)