Christina Rossetti In Music

Christina Rossetti in Music Project

"When I am dead" [Arthur Berger]

Title

"When I am dead" [Arthur Berger]
Part of: "Five settings of European poets"

Creator

Berger, Arthur; music (American, 1912-2003)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

Date

1982 [copyright] [publication]

Publisher

New York: Association for the Promotion of New Music

Subject

genre: song|chamber music
solo: tenor
instrumentation: piano
origin: United States
male composer

Language

English

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Place in the larger work: The fifth song of five in the song cycle "Five settings of European poets," which includes 1. "Ode" (Horace); 2. "Sonnets to Orpheus, #19" (Rainer Maria Rilke); 3. "Le bois amical" (Paul Valéry); 4. "Piazza Navona" (C.G. Belli); 5. "When I am dead" (Christina Rossetti)

Format

Format 1: musical score
performance time 13 minutes (song cycle)

Source

Other data reference(s): "Five settings of European poets : for tenor and piano 1979." WorldCat, https://www.worldcat.org/title/five-settings-of-european-poets-for-tenor-and-piano-1979/oclc/1083312002&referer=brief_results. Accessed 30 April 2020.
Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Identifier

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-berger

Rights

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Files

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Collection

Citation

Berger, Arthur; music (American, 1912-2003) and Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), “"When I am dead" [Arthur Berger],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2333.