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Carl Michael Ziehrer: Musical quotation on an album leaf
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Autograph. Unidentified; 4 bars in G major in 3/4 time. Written in ink, on a single stave drawn free-hand, on the recto of a single leaf. Signed ‘C M. Ziehrer / Wien 21/12 897’ [line over]. Later annotations in pencil include numbers from Hinterberger catalogues 18 and XX.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIX. Paul Claudel: play 'L'Annonce faite à Marie'; 1911 (see f. 145v). Fair copy, with a few revisions. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Paul Claudel, ed. R. Mallet, vol. 9, 'Théâtre' (Paris, 1955). Author's presentation inscription to Zweig, 1913 (f. 2v). ff. ...
Georges Duhamel: Complete short story 'Le dernier voyage de Candide'
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Autograph draft. Heavily corrected with numerous deletions and insertions; the opening line and half struck through. A picaresque continuation of Voltaire's satire Candide, first published in 1759. Begins: ' Candide cultivait son jardin depuis bien de années . . .' Ends: ' . . . Candide f...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVII. Hermann Hesse: poems 'Sommer 1933'; 1933. Typewritten, with an autograph title-page (f. 1), autograph titles to the poems and some watercolour illustrations (ff. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14). German. See Hermann Hesse, Gesammelte Dichtungen, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1952),...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCI. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi: short story 'Kreitserova sonata' [The Kreutzer Sonata]; [1888]. Draft fragment. Russian. Comprises the end of Chapter 23, Chapter 24 and the beginning of Chapter 25. See L. N. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, tom 27 (Moscow, 1933),...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCVIII. 'Charles Vildrac', [pseudonym of Charles Messager]: play 'Le Paquebot Tenacity', Act II, Scene I, written in a school exercise book; n.d. Draft. French. Published Geneva, 1919. Author's presentation inscription to Zweig (f. 1v). ff. 10. 220 x 172mm. Char...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CCII. Arthur Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer (Brussels, 1873). Printed. Dedicated on verso of title-page to Stefan Zweig from O. Van den Daele, Mons, 8 Oct. 1908. See also Zweig 181 and Chris Michaelides 'Stefan Zweig's copy of Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer (1873) in Th...
Franz Schubert: 'Auflösung', D.807 (words, J. Mayrhofer) and 'Blondel zu Marien', D.626 (words, anon), for voice and piano, from Franz Schubert's nachgelassene musikalische Dichtungen für Gesang und Pianoforte. Lieferung 34. Wien: Bey A. Diabelli & Comp., [1842]. Auflösung. [D 807.] Gedicht von J. Mayrhofer. Blondel zu Marien. [D 626. Text anon.] In Musik gesetzt für eine singstimme mit Begleitung des Piano Forte ... Nachlass No 34. Wien: bei Ant. Diabelli und Comp., [1842?] [Franz Sch...
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Printed score. Publication advertised in the Wiener Zeitung of 23 June 1842. The manuscript copy of Blondel zu Marien in the Witteczek-Spaun Collection, now in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna, names Grillparzer as the author of the text, but this may be a later addition. Nottebohm, The...
Franz Schubert: Mirjams Siegesgesang [D 942]. Gedicht von Grillparzer. Sopran Solo mit Chor, mit Begleitung des Pianoforte ... 136tes Werk. Dem Herrn Hofrathe Joseph Witeczek hochachtungsvoll gewidmet von den Verlegern Ant. Diabelli & Co. Wien: bei Ant. Diabelli u. Comp.
Sketchbook of Josef Teltscher, including drawings of Beethoven on his deathbed
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The notebook includes sketches, portraits (with some sitters named) and drawings finished to varying degrees, in pencil, with colour added to some. The items in pencil alone include two views of Beethoven's deathbed, and one very rough sketch of the scene. The notebook is listed in Zweig MS 214 ...