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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-218 Name Beethoven, Ludwig, composer, 1770-1827 Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable)

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. Zweig MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 9
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
Scope & Content:
Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

4. Zweig MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Baden, Summer, 1813]. Written in ink, addressed ‘Hr. von Bihler’ on the verso. An irregularly trimmed leaf, with bottom right hand corner, which presumably carried Beethoven’s signature, cut away.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5. Zweig MS 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 13
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Vienna, probably mid-April, 1817]. Written in pencil, addressed in ink on the verso ‘Hr. Dr. Von Bihler’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Apr 1817
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

6. Zweig MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 14
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1792-1794]
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

7. Zweig MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 15
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried Herder, with brief observations on nature by Beethoven
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The leaves have been folded twice, marking out two or four compartments to which Beethoven has restricted his notes on the last page. Contents as follows: f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die laute Klage’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Published...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1815?]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

8. Zweig MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 30
Title:
Josef Danhauser: Drawing of Beethoven on his deathbed, 1827
Scope & Content:
Copy. In pencil. Shows Beethoven’s head turned to the left and resting on a pillow, a cover drawn up beneath his chin. With copy of Danhauser’s signature and the date 1827 diagonally to the left. Below is the faint pencil inscription ‘Beethoven / Den 28ten März an seinem / Todtenbette gezeichnet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[after 1844]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

9. Zweig MS 208

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 208
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Stephan von Breuning
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in pencil on light brown course paper. Originally folded in two. The letter reads: f. 1r: Wenn du vieleicht / über die Glacis heute / spazieren gehst findest / du mich swischen 4 / u. 5 uhr. f. 1v: Für Herrn / Hof-Sekretär / von Breuning.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
between 1805 and May 1813
Extent:
1 folio

10. Zweig MS 209

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 209
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Kitchen accounts
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written on both sides in ink and pencil. Folio 1r has accounts for 23, 24, 26 and 27 July. The items are listed in ink with the price marked next to them, and the total is marked below in pencil. Folio 1v has the list for 25 July and other accounts marked in pencil, upside-down. Folio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
before 1827
Extent:

2 folios