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1. Zweig MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 1
Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, `Wo soll ich fliehen hin?' (words after Johann Heermann), for four voices and instruments (BWV 5)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in brown ink on systems of two to ten staves. Headed (f. 3r) `J[esu]. J[uva]. Do[m]i[ni]ca 19 post Trinit. Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Concerto'. With revisions throughout also in Bach's hand (listed in detail in Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke (Ka...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1724]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

2. Zweig MS 1-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 1-131
Title:
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts from the collection of Stefan Zweig.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1671-1999]
Extent:
131 items

3. 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

4. Zweig MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 2
Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir’ (BWV 130): viola part
Scope & Content:
In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1724]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5. Zweig MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 3
Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale preludes ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist’ (BWV 631a) and ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ (BWV 632), for organ, both from the ‘Orgel-Büchlein’
Scope & Content:
Copy in the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves, using soprano and bass clefs. On a single leaf, with BWV 631a on the recto and BWV 632 on the verso; the titles are given in the upper margins, that of BWV 632 followed by ‘Canon:’ perhaps in another h...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[c 1730]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

6. Zweig MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 4
Title:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Flute part, in D, to an unidentified concerto in three movements
Scope & Content:
Apparently not autograph; in an unidentified hand. Written in ink on single staves on either side of a single leaf. Headed ‘Concerto:’, and ‘Flaut Traversiere’. The first movement, in 2/4 time but with no tempo direction, is of 147 bars; movement II, ‘adagio’, 3/4, 40 bars; movement III (occupyi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[c 1740?]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

7. Zweig MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 5
Title:
Béla Bartók: Four Pieces for Orchestra, op. 12 (BB 64)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 26 staves, with annotations in pencil and in blue and red crayon. Signed, with the opus number, in pencil (f. 2r). The pieces are for differing forces and the instrumentation for nos. II-IV is noted at the foot of the first page of e...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Hungarian
Date Range:
[1921]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 48 folios)

8. Zweig MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 6
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for cello and piano, op. 69: sketches for movements III and IV
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil on ff. 1v and 2r. The sketches are mostly on single staves, with piano or ‘cello indicated above at relevant points on ff. 1v, 2r and v. The number 350 added later in pencil at the bottom right of f. 1. For accompanying note of provenance see Zweig MS ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1807-1808]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

9. Zweig MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 7
Title:
Felix Mendelssohn: note relating to Zweig MS 6 [sketches for Beethoven's op. 69 cello sonata]
Scope & Content:
Written in ink on recto of a single leaf. Gives identification of Zweig MS 6, then ‘von mir in Wien aus der Autographensammlung des Herrn Aloys Fuchs erhalten. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.’ Formerly kept with Zweig MS 6.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

10. Zweig MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 8
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1809-1810]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)