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Michael Cayley
20th - century
Great Britain, England
Michael Cayley (20th century), an English composer.
Cayley: "I am an amateur composer, choral singer and pianist, who has taken up composing again following early retirement after composing little since I left school."
Requiem
A setting for alto and piano of one of Christina Rossetti's most famous poems, Requiem.
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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