"When I am Dead, My Dearest (Song)" [Margaret Wegener]

"When I am Dead, My Dearest (Song)" [Margaret Wegener]

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

Part of: "Three Rosetti Songs"

Wegener, Margaret; music (English, 1920-2020)

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

1994 [composition]; 1997 [publication] [copyright]

Manchester: Da Capo Music Ltd.

genre: art song (lied)|song cycle|song

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: two flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

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

Place in the larger work: The first song of three in a song cycle called "Three Rosetti Songs," settings of Christina Rossetti poems. The songs include 1. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Song)"; 2. "Remember"; 3. "'Echo'".

Composition history: "Three Rosetti Songs were composed in 1994"

Tempo markings: quarter note = 63-66

Performance history: "first sung at the Holbourne Museum, Bath, in September 1994 by Georgina Anne Colwell accompanied by Nigel Foster"

Format 1: musical score

3 pages (pp. 1-3); song cycle performance time appox. 10 minutes

Cataloguer: Jessica Nash, University of Ottawa

Musical score: Northwestern University Library, Evanston

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-wegener

"© 1997 Margaret Wegener, Llangollen, Wales | Da Capo Music Ltd. | Manchester, England"

The Christina Rossetti in Music project website is hosted in Canada at the University of Ottawa Library, and we aim to comply with Canadian copyright laws. If you believe we have violated Canadian copyright law, please contact us at christinarossettimusic@uottawa.ca. The Christina Rossetti in Music project is strictly not for profit and intended for research and educational purposes only.