Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
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Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLI. André Gide: lecture 'De l'importance du public'; 1903 (see f. 2). Draft. French. See Oeuvres Complètes d'André Gide, ed. L. Martin-Chauffier, vol. 4 [Paris, 1937], pp. 181-197. Author's presentation letter to Zweig, 1914 (f. 1). ff. 24. 218 x 167mm. André Pa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVIII. Adolf Hitler: outline in note form for a speech made in Berlin; [1928]. Draft. German. ff. 13. 330 x 210mm. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor: Outline for a speech by Adolf Hitler: 1928: Germ: Autogr. draft.