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21. Zweig MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 46
Title:
Conradin Kreutzer: Extract from an orchestral work featuring a theme from Rossini’s opera Tancredi
Scope & Content:
Incomplete, comprises 22 bars on 2 pages, on either side of a single leaf, numbered ‘2’ at top right of recto. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Not from the beginning of the work, so lacking title, tempo direction and key- and time-signatures, but headed, in another ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

22. Zweig MS 64-67

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 64-67
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozart’s cousin, whom he calls ‘Bäsle’)
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1777-1779
Extent:
4 items

23. Zweig MS 108-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 108-109
Title:
Richard Wagner: Overture in D, ‘Rule Britannia’ (WWV 42): short and full scores, with sketches for incidental music to the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer) (WWV 41)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. In Mein Leben Wagner describes this work as ‘a further step in the direction of a type of composition calculated to make the most overwhelming effect; at the close ... a large military band was to be added to an already overmanned orchestra ...’. This is born out by his annotation ‘Hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1836]-1837
Extent:
2 volumes

24. Zweig MS 130

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 130
Title:
Hugo Wolf: ‘Gesang Weylas’ (words Eduard Mörike), song for voice and piano
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

25. Zweig MS 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 29
Title:
Domenico Cimarosa: Fragment, apparently from a duet or trio in D
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on a single system of ten staves on either side of a single leaf. In common time, with the text ‘a vostr’ordine potete entrar’ (recto), ‘Quando mi trova gia maritata sara da ridere col mio Papa’ (verso). Although three lines are left for the vocal parts, only...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

26. Zweig MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 51
Title:
Leopold Mozart: Divertimento ‘Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt’: part for [one of five] sleigh-bells, headed ‘Schlittengeleüth Ex.A’.
Scope & Content:
Contemporary copy, probably in the hand of Joseph Richard Estlinger. Written in ink on single staves on the recto of a single leaf. Below the heading are instructions for the player: ‘Intrada Tacet / wird 2 mahl gemacht’, ‘Presto Tacet’, ‘nach diesem Presto machen die Trompetten und Paucken ein ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1755]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

27. Zweig MS 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 102
Title:
Richard Wagner: Symphony in C (WWV 29): piano duet version of part of movement I
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Incomplete, breaking off after 116 bars of the Allegro. Written in ink on systems of four staves. ‘Sinfonia’ at head of f. 1r. Tempo directions ‘Sostenuto e maestoso (f. 1r) - Allegro con brio’ (f. 1v). The last two bars are written in the ‘primo’ part only, and the lower two sy...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1832-1833?]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

28. Zweig MS 114

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 114
Title:
Richard Wagner: Correspondence relating to Zweig MS 112
Scope & Content:
As follows: f. 1. Postcard from Wilhelm Tappert to Albert Cohn, Berlin, confirming the authenticity of Zweig MS 112, and with notes on the work’s composition; Berlin, 18 June 1886. f. 2r. Letter from the book dealer Albert Cohn to an unidentified correspondent (‘Ew. Hochgeboren’) about a Wag...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1886-1887
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

29. Zweig MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 68
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

30. Zweig MS 97

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 97
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4 Feb 1859
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)