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3351. Zweig MS 62

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 62
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio), 1791: duettino ‘Deh prendi un dolce amplesso’, for Sesto and Annio, from Act I (K621, no. 3).
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Headed ‘Duettino.’, with ‘No. 3’ at left, and ‘Atto I’ at right, all in Mozart’s hand in upper margin of f.1r. ‘No. 2’ added in upper margin of f. 1r in brown crayon. Other additions include, at the end (f. 2r) in ink, a bar count an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1791]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

3352. Zweig MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 69
Title:
Contract of marriage between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Constanze Weber
Scope & Content:
The marriage contract is written in ink in a notary's hand and signed on the reverse by Constanze Weber, her mother Maria Caecilia Weber, her witness Johann Carl Cetto von Kronstorff and her guardian Johann Thorwart, and by Mozart (‘Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’) and his witness Franz Gilowsky. With im...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
3 Aug 1782
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

3353. Zweig MS 81 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 81 A
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘An die Musik’ (words Franz von Schober), for voice and piano (D 547)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on systems of three staves, on the recto of a single leaf. Headed ‘An die Musik / Gedicht von Schober’ and signed ‘Franz Schubert m[anu propr]ia’. In D major, the vocal line in the treble clef; tempo direction ‘Mässig’. The lines labelled ‘Voce’ and ‘Pianoforte’ a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1827?]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3354. Zweig MS 132

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 132
Title:
Hans Christian Andersen: Poem 'Fest-Sang til Landsoldaten' (1851)
Scope & Content:
Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Poem of four stanzas celebrating the return of soldiers from the First Schleswig-Holstein War. Heading 'Fest-Sang til Landsoldaten' (underlined). ‘Mel. Dengang jeg drog afsted’. Begins: 'Dengang Du drog afsted' Ends: ‘Hurra, Hurra, Hurra’ Stanzas 1, 2 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish
Date Range:
[1851]
Extent:
1 item

3355. Zweig MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 133
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1841
Extent:
1 item

3356. Zweig MS 134

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 134
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIV. Honoré de Balzac: letter to Jean Thomassy; [1823]. French. See H. de Balzac, Correspondance, ed. R. Pierrot, vol. 1 (Paris, 1960), p. 218. f. 1. 191 x 147mm. Honoré de Balzac, novelist: Jean Thomassy: Letter to Jean Thomassy from Honoré de Balzac: [1823]:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1823]
Extent:
1 item

3357. Zweig MS 135

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 135
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXV. Honoré de Balzac: fragment of an early version of his article 'Monographie de la Presse Parisienne'; before 1842. Printed proof sheet with autograph annotations. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 40 (Paris,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
before 1842
Extent:
1 item

3358. Zweig MS 136

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 136
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXVI. Charles Baudelaire: poems 'Les sept vieillards' and 'Les petites vieilles'; [1859]. Fair copy made for Victor Hugo to whom the poems are dedicated. French. See C. Baudelaire, Oeuvres Complètes, ed. C. Pichois, vol. 1 (Paris, 1975), pp. 87-90. ff. 2. 208 x ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1859]
Extent:
1 item

3359. Zweig MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 137
Title:
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett: Newspaper article in the series 'Books and Persons', including a review of Conflicts by Stefan Zweig, written for the Evening Standard; London, 20 February 1928 (see f. 1)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft. The review relates to novels by three European writers newly published in English translation. Begins: 'Not long since I saw an advertisement of [deletion] a novel . . .' Ends: ‘It has sparks of the divine fire’ The works discussed are: Thomas Raucat, L'Honorable Partie de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 item

3360. Zweig MS 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 138
Title:
George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
Scope & Content:
Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 item

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