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1. Zweig MS 1-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 1-131
Title:
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts from the collection of Stefan Zweig.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1671-1999]
Extent:
131 items

2. Zweig MS 22-23

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 22-23
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letters to Peter Joseph Simrock; 1861, [1865]
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1861-1865
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Zweig MS 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12-13
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Zweig MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 73
Title:
Jacques Offenbach: Sketches for unidentified works
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, with some pencil, mostly on single staves but with some sections in score on up to four staves. In a sketch-book made from leaves or bifolia roughly sewn. Apparently first used, in what is now reverse order, for a sequence of instrumental waltzes, very incompletely ske...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[c 1855?]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 10 folios)

5. Zweig MS 115-117

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 115-117
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ (WWV 63), opera in three acts (libretto, the composer), 1840-1841: copyists’ full score of Overture with autograph annotations, revised ending to Overture and to Act III in autograph full score; 1853, 1860
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1853-1860
Extent:
3 volumes

6. Zweig MS 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 75
Title:
Anton Rubinstein: ‘Sérénade russe’ for piano
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Moderato, con moto [quaver]’. Title and ‘composé pour l’Album Bellini par Ant. Rubinstein’ at head of recto. The first 15 bars are numbered by the composer, and the numbers used to indicate a repeat of the passage towards the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
[1879]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

7. Zweig MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 71
Title:
Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht’ for piano duet
Scope & Content:
1-7 November 1871. Written in dark brown ink on systems of two staves, the two parts on facing pages. Autograph fair copy. Music occupies ff. 2v-13r. Opening tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Title-page (f. 2r): ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht / mit Prozessionslied, Bauerntanz und Mitternachtsglocke / ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Nov 1871
Extent:
1 volume (14 folios)

8. Zweig MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 88
Title:
Johann Strauss, the elder: ‘Redoute-Quadrille’, op.158
Scope & Content:
Possibly not autograph. Full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 staves. Music begins f. 1v. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 clarinets, oboe, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, side drum, 2 trombones, and strings. An extra stave is added in ink and pencil beneath the system on f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1843]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

9. Zweig MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 48
Title:
Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1903]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 12 folios)

10. Zweig MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 47
Title:
Josef Lanner: ‘Winter Gallope’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of thirteen staves. Tempo directions: ‘Introduction Andante’ (f. 1r), ‘All[egr]o’ (f. 1v), ‘Trio’ (f. 2r) and ‘Finale’ (f. 3r). Scored for 3 violins, bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, post-horn, trombone, tympani and cymbals (‘Schellen’)....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)