"Nature's Requiem" [Jack Villaume]

"Nature's Requiem" [Jack Villaume]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Villaume, Jack [Waldemar]; music (Australian, 1907-1994)

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

1957 [publication]

Sidney: Paling

genre: requiem

solo: low voice

instrumentation: piano

origin: Australia

male composer

English

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

Recordings: Can access a preview of the setting here: "Jack Waldemar Villaume: Nature's Requiem." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performed by Margaret Schindler and Philip Mayers, 2016. Idagio, https://app.idagio.com/profiles/jack-waldemar-villaume/recordings?works=27398612. Accessed 4 March 2020.

Format 1: musical score

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4791

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

Other data reference(s): "Jack Waldemar Villaume." Requiem Survey, http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=3163. Accessed 4 March 2020.

Cataloguer: Claudia Laugalys, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-villaume

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