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"For a Dream's Sake / Um einen Traum" [A. Walter Kramer]

Title

"For a Dream's Sake / Um einen Traum" [A. Walter Kramer]
First line of lyrics: The hope I dreamed of was a dream / Die Hoffnung kam in Traumgestalt

Creator

Kramer, A. [Arthur] Walter; music (American, 1890-1969)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)
Martens, Frederick H.; translated text (American, 1874-1932)

Date

1914 [copyright] [publication]

Publisher

New York: J. Fischer & Bro.; London, Leipzig, Berlin, Brussels: Breitkopf & Härtel

Subject

genre: song
solo: high voice
instrumentation: piano
initial sharps/flats: two flats
initial time signature: 6/4
other version 1 - solo: low voice
other version 1 - instrumentation: piano
other version 1 - initial sharps/flats: six flats
origin: United States
male composer|male translator

Language

English|German

Description

Rossetti poem(s): "Mirage"
Composition history: "By permission of The MacMillan Co., New York."
Tempo markings: "Slowly, with intense feeling"
Dedication: "For Jean Vincent Cooper"

Format

Format 1: musical score
3 pages

Source

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4623
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
Cataloguer: Arianne Zamin and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa
Musical score (high): Edward Clark Crossett Library, Bennington College, Bennington
Musical score (low): New York Public Library, New York

Identifier

Opus: 38, number 1
Record: CRM-mirage-kramer
File(s): CRM-mirage-kramer-high.pdf; CRM-mirage-kramer-low.pdf

Rights

"Copyright, 1914, by J. Fischer & Bro. British Copyright Secured. Eigentum des Verlegers für alle Länder"
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Citation

Kramer, A. [Arthur] Walter; music (American, 1890-1969), Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894), and Martens, Frederick H.; translated text (American, 1874-1932), “"For a Dream's Sake / Um einen Traum" [A. Walter Kramer],” Christina Rossetti In Music, accessed September 19, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/items/show/2773.