Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, op. 6, [1909]: fair copy made by the composer for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of between five and 32 staves. Bar lines ruled in pencil, with corrections, additions and marginal notes in pencil. The pieces occupy the following folios: ff. 1-2v. I.; tempo direction ‘Etwas bewegte Achtel’. Unpitched rhythmic sketches in penci...
Hugo Wolf: ‘Ernst ist die Frühling’ (words Heinrich Heine), song for voice and piano; 13, 16 Oct. 1878
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of three staves, on a single leaf; the single system on the verso contains the concluding five bars. Headed ‘Neue Gedichte / aus dem Liederstrauss v. H. Heine’, numbered ‘X’ beneath the title, signed at top right, and dated ‘Wien am 13, 16 Octob. 1878’ at top...
Hugo Wolf: ‘Gesang Weylas’ (words Eduard Mörike), song for voice and piano
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of three staves, on a single leaf; the single system on the verso contains the concluding four bars. Headed ‘Gesang Weyla’s’. Without time signature, tempo direction ‘Langsam u[nd]. feierlich.’; tempo direction and dynamic markings and phrasing are all added ...
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...
