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Cissie Loftus
1876 - 1943
Great Britain, Scotland
| C.M. Loftus |
Cecilia Marie [Cissie] Loftus (10/22/1876 – 1943), a female Scottish composer, lyricist, performer (vocalist, impressions, dancer), born in Glasgow, Scotland. She did publish ‘A Serenade’ and ‘Requiem’ in 1923.
| Source: | https://maestramusic.org/blog/spotlights-on-women-composers-in-early-broadway-history-cissie-loftus/ |
Requiem
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1923 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894) |
Requiem’, for voice and piano.
| Source: | http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/richard-dury-archive/music.htm |
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
| R.L. Stevenson (text) |