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131. Zweig MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 129
Title:
Hugo Wolf: ‘Ernst ist die Frühling’ (words Heinrich Heine), song for voice and piano; 13, 16 Oct. 1878
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Oct 1878
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

132. Zweig MS 161

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 161
Title:
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
Scope & Content:
Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away). Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798. Both of eight lines in two stanzas. 'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1798
Extent:
1 item

133. Zweig MS 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 23
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letter to Peter Joseph Simrock
Scope & Content:
Autograph. ‘Lilienthal 136, Baden-Baden’ (f. 2r); n.d., but endorsed ‘No. 1092. Baden-Baden d. 2/10.65. Brahms’ in another hand (f. 2v). Pencil numbers ‘524/2’ and ‘914’, in sequence with those on Zweig 22, added at foot of f. 1r.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1865]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

134. Zweig MS 199

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 199
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCIX. Oscar Wilde: poem 'In the Gold Room'; [1881]. Draft. First published among 'Flowers of Gold' in Wilde's Poems (1881). See The Poems of Oscar Wilde (1908), p. 159. f. 1. 259 x 206mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Poem 'In the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1881]
Extent:
1 item

135. Zweig MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 24
Title:
Hans von Bülow: Letter to C. Kerfack
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; signed and dated on f. 1v. With envelope (f. 3) addressed by von Bülow, where Kerfack is described as ‘Generalagent der Londoner "Union"‘, [Berlin]; closed with seal impression depicting an eagle bearing a shield. The letter relates to Zweig MS 26. In the letter von ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
2 Nov 1864
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

136. Zweig MS 89-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 89-92
Title:
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
4 volumes

137. Zweig MS 111

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 111
Title:
Richard Wagner: Transcriptions of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’ and ‘Extase’ from Zweig MS 110
Scope & Content:
Written in dark blue ink. The hand is the same at that in Zweig MSS 105 and 107, ff. 2-11. As follows: ff. 1r, 2r. Texts of the two poems. f. 3r. Transcription of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’. On systems of three staves, but the accompaniment not filled in. ff. 3v-4v. Transcription of ‘Extase’...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

138. Zweig MS 123

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 123
Title:
Richard Wagner (1813-1833): Letter to [C.F.] Peters, Bureau de Musique, Leipzig; Leipzig, 6 August 1831
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink. Text on f. 1r; address, to ‘Herrn Herr Peter’s (Bureu [sic] de Musique)’, f. 2v. Dated by Wagner at head of f. 1r, and signed ‘Richard Wagner stud: mus:’. Fragment of seal attached to upper edge of f. 2v. Annotated by the recipient (f. 2v) in ink; later annotatio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1831
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

139. Zweig MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 16
Title:
Vincenzo Bellini: ‘Bianca e Fernando’, opera in two acts (libretto Felice Romani, after D. Gilardoni), 1828: autograph sketch for ‘O contento desiato’, the final section of Filippo’s aria in Act I
Scope & Content:
Vocal line only, written in ink on a single stave, with the words beneath for the opening section and at the end. The role is for basso cantante, and though here originally written without clef or key signature, is notated in G in the bass clef; a soprano C clef has been inserted before it in a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1828
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

140. Zweig MS 112

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 112
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Descendons gaiement la courtille’ (text Dumersan?) (WWV 65), chorus for insertion in the vaudeville La descente de la courtille by Marion Dumersan and Dupeutys
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Draft in piano vocal score. Written in ink on systems of two and three staves. Two-part chorus, written on a single stave labelled ‘Choeur.’ against the first system on f. 1r, the other two staves designated ‘Orchestre.’. Indications of orchestration are also given in this system. Tem...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1841?]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)