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181. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

182. Zweig MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 59
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five contredanses for flute, strings (2 violins, cello and bass) and drum (K609)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four or six staves. Headed by Mozart ‘Contredanses’ (f. 1r), with the nos. 1-5 at the head of the individual dances. No.1: f. 1r; no. 2: f. 1v; no. 3: f. 2r and v; no. 4: ff. 2v, 3r; no. 5: f. 3v. No. 4 is in ‘da capo’ form, with three alternati...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1787-1788?]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

183. Zweig MS 195

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 195
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCV. Collection of poems 'Fêtes Galantes'; circa 1869. Fair copies and drafts, including two printed proofs. French. See P. Verlaine, Oeuvres Poétiques Complètes, ed. Y. G. Le Dantec (Paris, 1962), pp. 107-121. ff. 31. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by E. A....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

184. Zweig MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 116
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Overture
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 18 and 19 (f. 4r and v) staves. Headed ‘Zum fliegender Holländer Schluss der Ouvertüre (pag: 42 der autographirten Partitur nach der _ [underlined pause sign])’, with further references to pp. 42 and 43 of the original full score at top left and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1860]
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

185. Zweig MS 117

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 117
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63). Revised ending to Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 18 (f. 1r) and 20 staves (f. 1v). Headed ‘Schluss des dritten Actes’, and with extensive instructions for the copyist relating this score to the autograph full score and to Zweig MS 116. At the end (f. 1v) are detailed stage directions for the n...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1860]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

186. Zweig MS 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 179
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIX. Prose narrative 'Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke'; 1899 (see f. 1). Fair copy. German. See R. M. Rilke, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4 (Leipzig, 1930), 'Schriften in Prosa', pp. 5-34. Zweig's note of gift by the author (f. i). ff. i+27. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
1 item

187. Zweig MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 110
Title:
Richard Wagner: Sketches for ‘La tombe dit à la rose’ (WWV 56), ‘Extase’ (WWV 54) and ‘Attente’ (WWV 55), for voice and piano (all to words by Victor Hugo)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of one or two staves. Folio 1r has many trial strokes with a rastrum. As follows: f. 1r. Vocal line and text of ‘La tombe dit à la rose’; written with the page inverted. Interspersed with untexted sketches on a single stave for ‘Attente’, using the page the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1839]
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

188. Zweig MS 127

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 127
Title:
Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Oberon’, opera in three acts (libretto by James Robinson Planché after C.M. Wieland): sketches for part of Overture and of Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph short or condensed score. Written in ink on systems of two, three or four staves. As follows: f. 1r. ‘O Araby, dear Araby’ [no. 16]. Headed ‘Song Fatima’. f. 1v. ‘Mourn thou poor heart’ [no. 19]. Headed ‘Cavatina’. With annotations in red crayon and in pencil. f. 1v. Overture, eight ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1826
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

189. Zweig MS 122

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 122
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Rienzi’ (WWV 49), grand opera in 5 acts (libretto, the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1837-1840: instructions for staging for the Dresden performances
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in brown ink on both sides of a single leaf, with autograph deletions and additions. Arranged under headings of acts and vocal numbers. Numbered in pencil 160 at the head and 327 at the foot of the recto. The memorandum in this manuscript is principally concerned with ways o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1841]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

190. Zweig MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 54
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March for orchestra in C (K408, no. 1/383e)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of seven staves. Headed ‘Marcia’, and signed ‘di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart m[anu] p[ropria]’ at top right, on f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘Maestoso’. ‘No. 1’ beneath the title is presumably a later addition; other additions are the date 1782 (altered from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1782?]
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)