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Oscar Rasbach
1888 - 1975
United States of America, KY
| O. Rasbach |
Oscar Rasbach (02/08/1888 – 23/03/1975), an American pianist and composer and arranger of art songs and works for piano. Born in Dayton, Kentucky, died in Pasadena, California.
A requiem - When I am dead my dearest
♫ When I am dead, my dearest
© Etcetera Records KTC 1208
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1940 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830 - 1894) |
| Duration: | 2'34 |
| Label(s): | Etcetera KTC 1208 |
"When I am dead, my dearest", published 1940, for voice and piano.
♫ When I am dead, my dearest
© Etcetera Records KTC 1208
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Christina Rossetti (from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862)
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Christina Rossetti (from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862)
| Chr. Rossetti (text) |