Container Reference (shelfmark): Zweig MS 1-131 / Name: Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, composer, 1813-1883, http://isni.org/isni/000000... / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Container Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-131 Name Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, composer, 1813-1883, http://isni.org/isni/000000... Digitised Content No

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 100-101
Title:: Richard Wagner: Entracte tragique in D (WWV 25, no. 1)
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft in short score and fragmentary full score.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1832]
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 108-109
Title:: Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1836]-1837
Extent:: 2 volumes

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

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

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