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11. Zweig MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 16
Title:
Vincenzo Bellini: ‘Bianca e Fernando’, opera in two acts (libretto Felice Romani, after D. Gilardoni), 1828: autograph sketch for ‘O contento desiato’, the final section of Filippo’s aria in Act I
Scope & Content:
Vocal line only, written in ink on a single stave, with the words beneath for the opening section and at the end. The role is for basso cantante, and though here originally written without clef or key signature, is notated in G in the bass clef; a soprano C clef has been inserted before it in a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1828
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

12. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

13. Zweig MS 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 18
Title:
Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14 November 1796
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; on paper with legal stamps, showing the seal of Charles IV and the year, at the top of ff. 1r and 2v. As follows: f. 1r and v. Thematic catalogne, headed ‘Catalogo delle opere da me Luigi Boccherini cedute in tutta Proprietá al Sig[no]r Ignazio Pleyel’ (f. 1r), with,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Spanish
Date Range:
14 Nov 1796
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

14. Zweig MS 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 19
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 83, 1881: reduction of tutti passages from movements II, III and IV, for the published solo piano score (issued July 1882)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves on both sides of a single leaf. The passages concerned are, on the recto: movement II, bars 200-203, apparently the conclusion of a passage begun on another leaf; movement III, bars 1-22; movement IV, bars 39-47; and on the verso:- movement IV, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1882]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

15. Zweig MS 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 20
Title:
Johannes Brahms: ‘Zigeunerlieder’, for four voices and piano (words translated from Hungarian folk-songs by Hugo Conrat), op. 103
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink, with frequent corrections, on systems of up to six staves. With additional annotations by the composer in pencil and blue crayon, mostly intended for the copyist. The songs are unnumbered, the order in which they are written, relative to the numbers in the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

16. Zweig MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 21
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Canon for four voices ‘Ans Auge des Liebsten’ (words Friedrich Rückert), op. 113, no. 9: on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in black ink. Headed ‘à 4’ and signed at foot ‘Wien, Jan: 1873. Joh[anne]s Brahms’. In C; the two parts together on a single line preceded by bass and tenor clefs. The date of composition of this work is not known.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

17. Zweig MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 24
Title:
Hans von Bülow: Letter to C. Kerfack
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; signed and dated on f. 1v. With envelope (f. 3) addressed by von Bülow, where Kerfack is described as ‘Generalagent der Londoner "Union"‘, [Berlin]; closed with seal impression depicting an eagle bearing a shield. The letter relates to Zweig MS 26. In the letter von ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
2 Nov 1864
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

18. Zweig MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 25
Title:
Ferruccio Busoni: ‘Indianisches Erntelied’ (Indian Harvest Song), for piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Music on ff. 2r and 3r only; f. 2r. headed ‘Indianische Erntelied / Erster Versuch einer Verwerthung für das Clavier’. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto vivace’ (f. 2r). Against the end of the last system on f. 3r is the date ‘12 April 1911...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
12 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

19. Zweig MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 28
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: ‘Giovinotti mentre in volto’, rondo for soprano and strings
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Headed ‘Rondo’ in left upper margin of f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘And[ant]e’; the name of the character singing given as ‘Candida’ (f. 1r). Scored for violins, viola and unfigured bass; vocal part in the soprano clef. ‘Del Sig[no]r D. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

20. Zweig MS 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 29
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: Fragment, apparently from a duet or trio in D
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on a single system of ten staves on either side of a single leaf. In common time, with the text ‘a vostr’ordine potete entrar’ (recto), ‘Quando mi trova gia maritata sara da ridere col mio Papa’ (verso). Although three lines are left for the vocal parts, only...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)