Cyril Meir [Cyril] Scott (27/09/1879 – 31/12/1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health.
Source: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Scott |
Requiem
Period: | Expressionism |
Composed in: | 1917 |
Musical form: | song |
Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894) |
‘Requiem’ (1917), for high voice or medium 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.
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R.L. Stevenson (text) |