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31. Zweig MS 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 33
Title:
Gaetano Donizetti: early version of the overture to Il diluvio universale, in D major/minor, in a version for piano duet
Scope & Content:
Incomplete, 270 bars; the last page (f. 4v), though completely full, does not contain the conclusion of the work. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘Larghetto - Allegro’. The name Donizetti added in lighter ink in the upper margin of f. 1r. ‘N 3’ add...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1830?]
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

32. Zweig MS 34

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)

33. Zweig MS 35

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)

34. Zweig MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 36
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

35. Zweig MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 37
Title:
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

36. Zweig MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 38
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743-1744
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

37. Zweig MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 39
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows: ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 43 folios)

38. Zweig MS 40

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)

39. Zweig MS 41

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)

40. Zweig MS 42

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)