YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he ...
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YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he became interested in the customs and megaliths of the Khasis. In 1843 he was sent to the Punjab to work on the west Jumma canals. At the end o...
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
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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
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
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Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
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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)...
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
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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...
Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....