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Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 - 1958
Great Britain, England
| R. Vaughan Williams |
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (12/10/1872 – 26/08/1958), an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
A requiem - When I am dead my dearest
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1903 |
| Musical form: | song |
| Text/libretto: | Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830 - 1894) |
"When I am dead, my dearest", published 1903, for voice and piano.
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) |