"When I am dead, my dearest" [Vally Weigl]

"When I am dead, my dearest" [Vally Weigl]

Part of: "Along the Moving Darkness"

Weigl, Vally; music (Austrian-American, 1894-1982)

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

1969 ca [composition]

genre: song|song cycle

solo: soprano|alto

instrumentation: oboe|violin|flute|piano

origin: United States

female composer

English

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

Place in the larger work: The second song of five in the song cycle titled "Along the Moving Darkness" which includes 1. "A Conceit of Spring" (Etta Ruth Weigl; 2. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" (Christina Rossetti); 3. "Out of the Dark" (John Bannister Tabb); 4. "The Blackbird" (Humbert Wolfe); 5. "Epitaph" (Chard Powers Smith).

Performance instructions: For soprano or alto voice, accompanied by obe or violin.

Format 1: musical score

performance time 17 minutes (song cycle)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4792

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): "Vally Weigl Musical Works." Karl Weigl Foundation, http://www.karlweigl.org/?page_id=61. Accessed 5 March 2020.

Cataloguer: Claudia Laugalys, University of Ottawa

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "ALONG THE MOVING DARKNESS." American Composers Alliance, https://composers.com/composers/vally-weigl/along-moving-darkness. Accessed 5 March 2020.

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-weigl

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