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2. Zweig MS 1-218
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 1-218
- Title:
- Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 1538-1936
- Extent:
- 205 items
3. Zweig MS 12-13
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 12-13
- Title:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1813-1817
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
4. Zweig MS 22-23
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 22-23
- Title:
- Johannes Brahms: Letters to Peter Joseph Simrock; 1861, [1865]
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1861-1865
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
5. Zweig MS 64-67
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 64-67
- Title:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1777-1779
- Extent:
- 4 items
6. Zweig MS 77
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 77
- Title:
- Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of up to 30 staves. Incomplete, comprising nos. I, III, IV and bars 1-16 only of no. V. No. I written jointly by Schoenberg and Stein, the remaining numbers entirely in the hand of the composer. As follows: ff. 1-6r. No. I; tempo marking (f. 1r)...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1909-1910
- Extent:
- 1 volume (17 folios)
7. 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
8. Zweig MS 90
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 90
- Title:
- Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
- Scope & Content:
- Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 18 Jun 1933
- Extent:
- 1 volume (44 folios)
9. 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)
10. 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)