Dear Colleagues,
To all who offered help many thanks. There was almost unanimity that
the final word of the second line is "Ziffer", perhaps misused in the
sense of "figure".
The composer is Sir Peter Maxwell Davis. His manuscripts appear to
contain numerous notes and comments, in various languages and scripts
(some invented). Not everything that is written in deutscher Schrift is
actually German. Ein gefundenes Fressen, I think, for generations of
musicologists to come.
Many thanks
Alan Deighton
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