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Project / Collection Stefan Zweig Collection Archive Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-218 Name Zweig, Stefan, writer and collector, 1881-1942, http://isni.org/isni/000000...

1. Zweig MS 1-218

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 1-218
Title:
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1538-1936
Extent:
205 items

2. 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)

3. Zweig MS 89-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89-92
Title:
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
4 volumes

4. Zweig MS 206

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 206
Title:
Stefan Zweig Collection: Giorgio Vasari: account of the life of the painter Luca Signorelli
Scope & Content:
Incomplete copy from Le Vite dei piu Eccellente Architetti, Pittori e Scultori Italiani (1550). Italian. With a typewritten English translation (ff. 3-7), and the relevant pages removed from a later printed edition (ff. 8-11). Presented by the Trustees of the Stefan Zweig Collection, 27 Sept. 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[16th century]
Extent:
1 item