The Stefan Zweig Collection is an important collection of autograph manuscripts formed by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.- Biography :...

. After his death in 1942 his heirs continued to develop the collection, and donated to the British Library

British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...

 in 1986. The collection includes a large number of literary and music manuscripts, mainly in the composers' own hands. A notable item in the Zweig collection is Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's "Verzeichnüß aller meiner Werke," his own handwritten thematic catalogue of his works from 1784 to 1791.