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101. Zweig MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 6
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major for cello and piano, op. 69: sketches for movements III and IV
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil on ff. 1v and 2r. The sketches are mostly on single staves, with piano or ‘cello indicated above at relevant points on ff. 1v, 2r and v. The number 350 added later in pencil at the bottom right of f. 1. For accompanying note of provenance see Zweig MS ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1807-1808]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

102. Zweig MS 58

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 58
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
[1788]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

103. Zweig MS 94

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 94
Title:
Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
25 Sep 1919-11 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (121 pages + xxxiii folios)

104. Zweig MS 70

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 70
Title:
Modest Musorgsky: Songs ‘Svietik Savishna’ (words, the composer) and ‘Iz slez moikh vyroslo mnogo’ (words, translated by M. Mikhaylov from ‘Aus meinem Tränen’ by Heinrich Heine), for voice and piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of three staves. Written out as a pair, with title-page (f. 1r) giving dedications of ‘Svietik Savishna’ to Tsezar Antonovich Kiui, and ‘Iz slez moikh’ to Vladimir Petrovich Opochinin. As follows: ff. 1v-3r. ‘Svietik Savishna’. Vocal line in the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

105. 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)

106. Zweig MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 36
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

107. Zweig MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 41
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Variations in G on the anthem ‘Gott erhalte den Kaiser’, for keyboard; theme and Variation I
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. The theme occupies the bottom four staves, and Variation I the upper eight staves. No key signature is given, and tempo directions and expression marks are also absent. On the verso is a note of authenticity, in I...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1797-1799]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

108. Zweig MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 86
Title:
Gaspare Spontini: ‘Olympie’, opera in three acts, second version (libretto by Dieulafoy and Briffaut after Voltaire, revised by E.T.A. Hoffman), 1821: chorus ‘Ciel! Il expire’ with following recitative for the Hièrophante and Cassandra, from Act III, scene viii
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 16 staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante un poco sostenuto’ (f. 1r). Staves extended into the right margin by the composer on f. 2r. The recitative is given in a shorter version than that found in the published score, and the parts for the two ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

109. Zweig MS 34

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 34
Title:
Christoph Willibald Gluck: [‘I lamenti d’amore’], cantata beginning ‘Misero! e che farò! e come, e con qual cor i figli abbraccerò’ for soprano and strings (words, Raniero de Calzabigi), arranged by the composer from the aria for Admeto (tenor) ‘Misero! e che farò’ from act III of his opera ‘Alceste’
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. In C minor. Tempo directions ‘Andante un poco - Recit. - lento - presto - lento - presto - moderato - andante - Presto - Lento - Presto - Lento - Presto’. The music and text begin as in the first printed edition of the opera, though...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1767?]
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

110. Zweig MS 63

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 63
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1784-1791
Extent:
1 volume (i + 44 folios)