untitled [setting of "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")] [Juan Orrego-Salas]

untitled [setting of "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")] [Juan Orrego-Salas]

Orrego-Salas, Juan; music (Chilean-American, 1919-2019)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1945 [composition]

genre: song

solo: alto

instrumentation: piano

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Composition history: The setting was likely composed in the United States, since Orrego Salas was living there between 1944 and 1946, when he additionally studied composition with Randall Thompson and musicology with Paul Henry Lang on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Performance history: First performed in Santiago, 31 May, 1948 (Gooch and Thatcher 4776).

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4776

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Reference: Ezust, Emily. The LiederNet Archive. http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Other data reference(s): "Juan Antonio Orrego Salas." Requiem Survey, http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=3360. Accessed 6 March 2023.

Cataloguer: Claudia Laugalys and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-orrego-salas

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