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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Zweig MS 1-218

81. Zweig MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 76
Title:
Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata, ‘Ombre tacite e sole’, for soprano solo, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of four and five staves. The bass is figured throughout. Signed ‘Cav[alier]e Aless[andr]o Scarlatti’ at top left, and headed ‘Cantata p[er] / Camera / Sopr[an]o Solo / con Strom[en]ti d’Arco. / 31 8bre 1716’ at left of first system (f. 1r). The wo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
31 Oct 1716
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

82. Zweig MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 77
Title:
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of up to 30 staves. Incomplete, comprising nos. I, III, IV and bars 1-16 only of no. V. No. I written jointly by Schoenberg and Stein, the remaining numbers entirely in the hand of the composer. As follows: ff. 1-6r. No. I; tempo marking (f. 1r)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1910
Extent:
1 volume (17 folios)

83. Zweig MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 78
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘Misero pargoletto’ (text Pietro Metastasio, from Demofoonte), aria in B flat for high voice and keyboard accompaniment (D 42)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Partly score, partly vocal line only. Written in ink, on single staves and on systems of two and three staves. With corrections in ink and pencil, some apparently in the hand of Antonio Salieri, with whom Schubert studied. In two versions; one of them, less fully realised, but setting...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[Sep 1813]
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

84. Zweig MS 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 79
Title:
Franz Schubert: Four German Dances for piano (D 146 no.2, 769 no. 1, and 783 Deutsche nos. 1, 2)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves. On a single leaf, the dances from D 146 and 769 on the recto, the others on the verso. D 769 no. 1 marked ‘Mit Verschiebung’. Headed ‘Deutsch’, dated 1824, and signed ‘Fr. Schubert M[anu propr]ia’, all at head of recto; signature in light...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

85. Zweig MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 80
Title:
Franz Schubert: Dance (‘Deutscher’) in A flat for piano (D 365, no. 2), with the beginning of Evangelium Johannis 6 (D 607)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written on recto and verso of a single leaf, as follows: f. 1r. Evangelium Johannis 6, vers. 55-58 (text in German from St. John’s Gospel in Luther’s translation), for voice with figured bass accompaniment; [1818]. Bars 1-33 only. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Headed ‘Evan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Mar 1818
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

86. Zweig MS 81 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 81 A
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘An die Musik’ (words Franz von Schober), for voice and piano (D 547)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on systems of three staves, on the recto of a single leaf. Headed ‘An die Musik / Gedicht von Schober’ and signed ‘Franz Schubert m[anu propr]ia’. In D major, the vocal line in the treble clef; tempo direction ‘Mässig’. The lines labelled ‘Voce’ and ‘Pianoforte’ a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1827?]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

87. Zweig MS 81 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 81 B
Title:
Franz Schubert: Folder in which Zweig MS 81A (Schubert’s autograph of ‘An die Musik’) was mounted before its presentation to the British Library
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Portrait of Schubert, lithograph by Josef Teltscher, 1826, published by Mansfeld & Co.; [1829]. The first of the two versions issued by Mansfeld & Co., with below the image a reproduction of Schubert’s signature and the words ‘Ehrenmitglied der Musik-Vereine zu Grätz un...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

88. Zweig MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 82
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘Schlachtlied’ (words F.G. Klopstock) for double male-voice choir (D 912)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Nicht zu geschwind, kraftvoll’ (f. 1r). Minor autograph corrections to music and text in ink in a number of places. Title ‘Schlachtlied. Von Klopstock. / Doppel=Chor.’, with date and signature ‘28. Febr....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
28 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 7 folios)

89. Zweig MS 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 83
Title:
Franz Schubert: ‘Mirjams Siegesgesang’ (words Franz Grillparzer), for soprano solo, choir and piano (D 942)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink; mostly on systems of 6 staves: soloist and chorus sopranos parts on the same stave and marked ‘solo’ or ‘tutti’, systems of 3 staves for passages for soprano solo and piano only. Tempo directions ‘All[egr]o giusto (f. 2r) - Allegretto (f. 4r) - Al...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Mar 1828
Extent:
1 volume (18 folios)

90. Zweig MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 84
Title:
Heinrich Schütz: [‘Schwanengesang’], setting in German of Psalm 119, with Psalm 100 and the German Magnificat (SWV 482-494), for two four-part choirs with organ continuo: organ continuo part
Scope & Content:
Copy, with autograph annotations. Figured bass line, written in dark brown ink on single staves, with key words and phrases of the text written in beneath, and indicating the sections allocated to each of the two choirs. In a volume labelled ‘ORGANUM’ (f. i) on the upper cover. The music is in a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1671
Extent:
1 volume (i + 28 folios)