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David Lucas
20th - century
Great Britain, England
David Lucas (20th century), an English composer.
Lucas: "A graduate of King's College London, where I read English, I have written music from an early age, mainly in traditional forms. I enjoy playing orchestral and chamber music, my instruments being violin and viola."
Requiem
One of several settings which I have made of poems by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was a female British poet. She wrote a poem called Requiem or Song
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.
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