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Arthur Searle: Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the British Library. The Stefan Zweig Collection
-British Library (1999)-
First edition. Cloth and boards. Fine in damaged acetate wrapper. The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) built up a large collection of autograph manuscripts. At first he concentrated principally on literature and historical documents, but increasingly turned his attention to music, particularly in his later years. Many of the items in the Zweig Collection at the British Library are acquisitions from this period. The collection is strong in Austrian and German classics: for Mozart there are 11 music manuscripts, as well as letters, his marriage contract and the thematic catalogue of his works which he kept from 1784 until the end of his life. Bach is represented by a complete sacred cantata; the Haydn items include one of the London symphonies; among the Schubert manuscripts is perhaps his best known song: "An die Musik"; there is the notebook Beethoven kept in his first years in Vienna, Brahms' "Zigeunerlieder" and an array of early sketches by Wagner. There are also manuscripts of workd by Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel, Offenbach, Mussorgsky, Grieg and Debussy. The 20th century is represented by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Bartok, Ravel and Stravinsky. This catalogue illustrates and contains entries on over 130 manuscripts, by 52 composers, making the entire Zweig Collection available to scholars. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence.
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Banks Chris, Searle Arthur & Turner Malcolm (edited by): Sundry Sorts of Music Books : Essays on The British Library Collections.
-British Library, 1993-
First edition viii+400 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in somewhat grubby dustjacket with edge-wear. "Sundry Sorts of Music Books" collects essays by leading musicologists from Europe and North America celebrating the richness and diversity of the British Library's collections of manuscripts and printed music. The contributions range from the 14th to the 20th century, and include music analysis and composer biography, as well as articles on bibliographic sources. Reflecting the interests of O.W. Neighbour, to whom the book is dedicated, the emphasis is on 16th-17th and 20th-century studies, but among the subjects from other periods are the music of Handel and Mozart - two figures particularly well represented in the Library's holdings.
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