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Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 34
Title:: Christoph Willibald Gluck: [‘I lamenti d’amore’], cantata beginning ‘Misero! e che farò! e come, e con qual cor i figli abbraccerò’ for soprano and strings (words, Raniero de Calzabigi), arranged by the composer from the aria for Admeto (tenor) ‘Misero! e che farò’ from act III of his opera ‘Alceste’
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. In C minor. Tempo directions ‘Andante un poco - Recit. - lento - presto - lento - presto - moderato - andante - Presto - Lento - Presto - Lento - Presto’. The music and text begin as in the first printed edition of the opera, though...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1767?]
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 35
Title:: Edvard Grieg: ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite no. 2, op. 55
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 18 staves. Contains the four numbers first performed by Grieg at Kristiania, 14 Nov. 1891, but with the revised ending to no. 3. As follows: ff. 3v-8r. ‘Der Brautraub (Ingrids Klage)’, tempo directions ‘Allegro furioso - Andante - Allegro ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1891-1892]
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 31 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 41
Title:: Joseph Haydn: Variations in G on the anthem ‘Gott erhalte den Kaiser’, for keyboard; theme and Variation I
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. The theme occupies the bottom four staves, and Variation I the upper eight staves. No key signature is given, and tempo directions and expression marks are also absent. On the verso is a note of authenticity, in I...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1797-1799]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 42
Title:: Michael Haydn: String quartet in B flat, ‘Divertimento Notturno’ (Perger 125)
Scope & Content:: Incomplete, lacking the last 100 bars of the final ‘Rondeau’. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Headed in upper margin of f. 1r ‘Divertimento notturno. à 4. 2 Violini, Viola e Basso.’, with the signature ‘di G. Michele Haydn m[anu] p[ropr]ia’. Comprising the followi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1785
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 44
Title:: Nicolò Jommelli: Aria ‘Per voi Donzellette sospiro’, for bass voice and orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 10 staves. In D; accompaniment scored for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 flutes, 2 horns, viola [?] (marked to play with the bass throughout), and unfigured bass. In 3/4 time; the end is followed by a single bar of the vocal line in 2/4, with the text ‘B...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Italian
Date Range:: between 1754-1768
Extent:: 1 volume (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 45
Title:: Johann Ludwig Krebs: Chorales ‘Treuer Gott ich muss dir klagen’ in G, for oboe d’amore and organ, and ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’ in E, for oboe d’amore [or oboe?] and organ
Scope & Content:: Both incomplete. Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. A single leaf, originally part of a bifolium, with the page nos. ‘1’ at top left of the recto and ‘4’ at top right of the verso, apparently not in the composer’s hand. Contents: Recto. The first 18½ bars of ‘Treuer Got...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1746
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 46
Title:: Conradin Kreutzer: Extract from an orchestral work featuring a theme from Rossini’s opera Tancredi
Scope & Content:: Incomplete, comprises 22 bars on 2 pages, on either side of a single leaf, numbered ‘2’ at top right of recto. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Not from the beginning of the work, so lacking title, tempo direction and key- and time-signatures, but headed, in another ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 47
Title:: Josef Lanner: ‘Winter Gallope’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of thirteen staves. Tempo directions: ‘Introduction Andante’ (f. 1r), ‘All[egr]o’ (f. 1v), ‘Trio’ (f. 2r) and ‘Finale’ (f. 3r). Scored for 3 violins, bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, post-horn, trombone, tympani and cymbals (‘Schellen’)....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1829
Extent:: 1 volume (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 49
Title:: Gustav Mahler: ‘Urlicht’, song for voice and orchestra (words from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by L.A. von Arnim and Clemens Brentano)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 to 18 staves. Music begins f. 2r; tempo directions ‘Sehr feierlich aber [corrected in pencil from ‘und’] schlicht!’ (f. 2r) - ‘Rit.’ (f. 4v), then, added in pencil ‘Drängend!’ (f. 5r) - ‘Molto rit! Wieder langsam wie am Anfang!’ (f. 5v). Bar ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1893
Extent:: 1 volume (6 folios)

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