Contributions to the Lieder Repertoire 1900-99
For singers and pianists interested in the art song repertoire, this is a list of those compositions for voice and piano, from the 1900-1999 era, which are still available, for purchase or otherwise, in score form. The aims and criteria are roughly as sent to the lieder-l mailing list on 9 March, 12 March and 13 March 2000. The songs are also collated by decade of composition where known, and the composers by publisher.
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If you know of a significant contribution to the art song repertoire, or a publisher, or a date of composition, which is not mentioned here, please let Peter Billam know.
Composers include Georges Auric, Milton Babbitt, Gary Bachlund, Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Arnold Bax, Arthur Benjamin, Alban Berg, Lennox Berkeley, Gerald Berners, Leonard Bernstein, Peter Billam, Boris Blacher, Arthur Bliss, William Bolcom, Lili Boulanger, Paul Bowles, Pierre de Bréville, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Hans Melchior Brugk, Ferruccio Busoni, George Butterworth, André Caplet, Elliott Carter, Pablo Casals, Aaron Copland, Jean Cras, George Crumb, Cesar Cui, Martin Dalby, Richard Danielpour, Malcolm Davidson, Claude Debussy, Maurice Delage, Marcel Delannoy, Frederick Delius, Leonid Desyatnikov, David Diamond, Arne Dørumsgaard, Jakob Druckman, John Duke, Hanns Eisler, Werner Egk, Gabriel Fauré, Gerald Finzi, Wolfgang Fortner, Jean Françaix, Monique Gabus, C. Armstrong Gibbs, Percy Grainger, Ivor Gurney, Reynaldo Hahn, John Harbison, Michael Head, Jake Heggie, Alfred Heller, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, David Hogan, Lee Hoiby, Robin Holloway, Gustav Holst, Sidney Homer, Arthur Honegger, Donald Hope, Mervyn Horder, Herbert Howells, Georges Hüe, Jaques Ibert, John Ireland, Charles Ives, André Jolivet, Wilhelm Kempff, Yrjo Kilpinen, Erich Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Dorian le Gallienne, Jacques Leguerney, Franz Lehár, Liza Lehmann, Daniel Lesur, David Lewiston Sharpe, Lowell Liebermann, Douglas Lilburn, Fernando Lopes-Garça, Elizabeth Lutyens, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Josef Marx, Nikolai Medtner, Wilfrid Mellers, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Ed Talbot Moeran, John Musto, Carl Nielsen, Gösta Nystroem, Fernando Obrados, Oscar von Pander, Hans Pfitzner, Astor Piazzolla, Wolfgang Plagge, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Roger Quilter, Sergei Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Gardner Read, Aribert Reimann, Hermann Reutter, Wolfgang Rihm, Ned Rorem, Albert Roussel, Aulos Sallinen, Erik Satie, Henri Sauget, Othmar Schoeck, Arnold Schoenberg, Cyril Scott, Matyás Seiber, Dimitri Shostakovic, Jean Sibelius, Christian Sinding, Larry Sitsky, Roger Smalley, Arthur Somervell, Filipe de Sousa, Robert Starer, Alexander Steinbrecher, William Grant Still, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Donald Swann, Karol Szymanowski, John Tavener, Georg Tintner, Michael Tippett, Donald Tovey, Mark-Antony Turnage, Bernard van Dieren, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Heitor Villa-Lobos, William Walton, Peter Warlock, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, Felix Weingartner, Justus Hermann Wetzel, Gerhard Wimberger, Stefan Wolpe, Xian Xing Hai, Alexander Zemlinsky.
Other composers have probably also written songs: Franco Alfano, Anne Boyd, Eve Beglarian, Nadia Boulanger, Alan Bush (1900-?) Afredo Casella, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, John Corigliano, Luigi Dallapiccola, Vicenzo Davico, Paquito D'Rivera, John Edmunds, Maurice Emmanuel, Stuart Findlay (first published by Boosey in Capetown?), Lukas Foss, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Nikolai Golovanov, Ricky Ian Gordon, Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000), Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996), John Hatton, Richard Hundley, Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), Francisco Lacerda (1869-1934), Libby Larsen, Peter Lange-Müller, Otto Luening, Lowell Liebermann, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Frederic Mompou, Goffredo Petrassi, Tobias Picker, Ildelbrabdo Pizzetti, André Previn, Ture Rangstrom, Ottorino Respighi, Schreker, Peter Sculthorpe, Rudi Stephan (1887-1915), Michael Tilson Thomas, Louis Vierne and Chen Yi, but all details of title, poet, opus, date and publisher are unknown. If you know any of these details, please let Peter Billam know.
Texts can be found at the indispensable Lied and Song Texts website www.recmusic.org/lieder . Other references include Italian Art Song by Ruth C. Lakeway and Robert C. White, Indiana University Press; From Parry to Finzi by Trevor Hold, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk; The Interpretation of French Song by Pierre Bernac, Gollancz; Guide de la Mélodie et du Lied by Brigitte François-Sacré and Gilles Fayard; and A French Song Companion by Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes, Oxford University Press.
Grouping the songs by the decade of their composition, where known, we have:
| 1900's | 624 songs |
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| 1910's | 554 songs |
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| 1920's | 485 songs |
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| 1930's | 357 songs |
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| 1940's | 157 songs |
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| 1950's | 87 songs |
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| 1960's | 88 songs |
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| 1970's | 93 songs |
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| 1980's | 74 songs |
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| 1990's | 148 songs |
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- 1900 - 1909
- Sieben Frühe Lieder and Vier Lieder Op. 2 by Berg, Go Not, Happy day, Love Went A-Riding and So Perverse by Bridge, Chanson d'automne, Viens ! Une Flute invisible soupire, Poème de Mai, Green, Papillons, Lon lon la, chanson bretonne, Il était une fois jadis, Dans la fontaine, Tu nous souriais and Paroles à l'absente by Caplet, La Tour and Sept Mélodies by Cras, Twenty-one Poems by Nekrasov, Szesc piesni, Otzvuki voynï, Eighteen Poems by A. K. Tolstoy, Zmey, Musical Jokes and Experiments, Vesenyaya pesnya, Lamento, Trois Mélodies, Zhelaniye, Six Poems by Mickiewicz, Neuf Mélodies, Seventeen Children's Songs, Seven Poems by Armenian Poets, Gimm Stasovu, Six Poems by Solonsky and Khrista Radi by Cui, Trois chansons de France and Fêtes Galantes (2ème collection) by Debussy, Danish Songs by Delius, Op. 85, Deux Madrigaux Op. 87, Le don silencieux, Chanson, Vocalise-Etude and La chanson d'Eve by Fauré, Six Songs Op. 15, Six Songs Op. 16, Hymns from the Rig Veda and The heart worships by Holst, Poems of Thomas Hood, Two Songs, Poems of Browning, Songs from Underwoods A Child's Garden of Verses Four Songs, Three Songs, Seventeen Lyrics from Sing-Song and The Fiddler of Dooney by Homer, Air du matin, Air du soir, Chanson de Lognac, Portrait d'enfant, Ronde, Les yeux et la voix, Chansons Printanières, Dans le jardin multicolore, Edith au col de cygne, Trois poèmes maritimes, Croquis d'Orient, Jeunes chansons sur des vieux airs, Lieds dans la forêt, Chimères, Étrennes, Ferveur and Vertige by Hüe, Knabe by Korngold, Die Liebe zog vorüber by Lehár, The Daisy-Chain, 5 Greek Love-Songs, 5 French Songs, More Daisies, To a Little Red Spider, Songs of Love and Spring, The Life of a Rose, Bird Songs, Mr. Coggs and Other Songs for Children, Nonsense Songs, Breton Folk-Songs and Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral by Lehmann, Fünf Lieder by Alma Mahler, Kindertotenlieder von Rückert and Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler, Op. 10, 11, Song without Opus, Op. 14, 15, 18, 19, 22 and 24 by Pfitzner, Unpublished juvenilia by Prokofiev, Three Songs, Shakespeare Songs, To Julia, To Daisies, Songs of Sorrow, Weep You No More, Song of the Blackbird and Seven Elizabethan Lyrics by Quilter, Twelve Songs Op. 14, Twelve Songs Op. 21 and Fifteen Songs Op. 26 by Rachmaninov, Shéhérazade, Cinq mélodies populaires grêques, Histoires naturelles, Sainte, Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera, Les grands vents venus d'outremer, Sur l'herbe and Chants Populaires by Ravel, Brettl Lieder, Sechs Lieder Op. 3, Acht Lieder Op. 6, Zwei Balladen Op. 12, Zwei Lieder Op. 14, Am Strande and Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op. 15 by Schoenberg, Two Songs op. 3, Two Songs op. 5, Three Songs op. 9, Two Songs op. 11, Ballad of Dark Rosaleen, op. 13, Two Songs op. 24, Greek Song, op. 29, Two Songs op. 30, Asleep, op. 31, Autumnal, op. 32, Villanelle, op. 33, no. 3, Evening Hymn, op. 34, Two Songs op. 36, Two Songs op. 38, Three Songs op. 42, Four Songs op. 43, Three Songs op. 46, Afterday, op. 50, no. 1, Three Songs op. 52, Three Songs op. 55, Two Songs op. 56, Three Songs op. 57, Two Songs op. 61, Three Songs op. 62, And So I Made A Villanelle, op. 65 and Two Songs op. 68 by Scott, Love in Springtime, The Shropshire Lad, James Lee's Wife and A Broken Arc by Somervell, Op. 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53 and 56 by Strauss, Opus 6 by Stravinsky, 6 Songs Op.3 by Tovey, Drei Lieder, Drei Lieder Op. 4 and Nachtliedje uit "Lioba" by van Dieren, Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams, Fünf Lieder Op. 3 and Fünf Lieder Op. 4 by Webern, Sechs Lieder Op. 25, Drei Gedichte aus Gottfried Kellers Jugendzeit Op. 27, Zwölf Lieder Op. 28, Vier Lieder Op. 31, Sechs Märchenlieder Op. 32, Zwei Balladen von Carl Spitteler Op. 37, Frühluings und Liebeslieder Op. 41, Drei Lieder Op. 44 and Lieder Op. 45 by Weingartner, Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge, In der Sonnesgasse, Herr Bombardil, Maiblumen blühten überall, Es war ein alter König, Mädel, kommst du mit zum Tanz ?, Über eine Wiege, Schlummerlied, Zwei Balladen and Fünf Lieder by Zemlinsky
- 1910 - 1919
- Fünf Lieder Op. 15 and Fünf Lieder Op. 16 by Bartók, Seven Selected Songs by Bax, Fünf Lieder nach Peter Altenberg Op. 4 by Berg, Quatre mélodies pour voix moyennes, Héros, je vous salue and France by Bréville, Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad and Bredon Hill by Butterworth, En regardant ces belles fleurs, Nuit d'automne, Solitude, Le vieux coffret, Prière normande, Quand reverrai-je, hélas!, La Croix Douloureuse, Détresse, Panis Angelicus, Pater Noster and Pie Jesu by Caplet, Elégies by Cras, Seventeen more Children's Songs, Net, ne tebya, Ochnuvshiysya oryol, Politicheskomu poetu, Twenty-four Poems, Muzïkal'nïye miniatyurï, yumoreski, pis'ma, Four Fables by Krïlov, Betye tevtona, Last Seventeen Children's Songs, Budris and his Sons, Songs of the Western Slave, Baben', Ne tsvetok-li, Spiski smerti, Utro zhizni, Gimn futurizmu and La Bataille by Cui, An Arabesque and Four Old English Lyrics by Delius, Le jardin clos, Mirages Baronne, C'est la paix and L'Horizon Chimérique by Fauré, Severn Meadows by Gurney, Two Songs, Bandana Ballads, Op. 23, Dearest, The Song of the Shirt, Songs of Experience, Songs of the Old South, Sing to me, sing, Babylon the Great, Sheep and Lambs, The Battle of Blenheim, Three Scotch Poems, Four Modern Poems, Homeland and Songs from Mother Goose by Homer, Girl's Son and A Madrigal by Howells, Chansons du valet de coeur, Trois nouvelles mélodies, Deux poésies de Jean Lahor, L'un et l'autre, Vengeons nos morts, Triptyque, Dans le parc and Esquisses marocainnes by Hüe, Heart's Desire, The Cost, Spring Sorrow, I have Twelve Oxen, Sea Fever and The Bells of Saint Marie by Ireland, Jalkanen Lieder by Kilpinen, Sechs Einfache Lieder Op. 9, Acht einfache Lieder, Österreichischer Soldatenabschied, Zita-Hymne and Die Gansleber im Hause Duschnitz by Korngold, Aus eiserner Zeit by Lehár, 5 Little Love Songs, Prairie Pictures, Songs of a Flapper, Cowboy Ballads, The Well of Sorrow, 5 Tenor Songs, Hips and Haws, Songs of Good Luck, Parody Pie, 3 Snow Songs and 3 Songs for Low Voice by Lehmann, Vier Lieder and Fünf Gesänge by Alma Mahler, Deux mélodies Hébraïques and Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé by Ravel, Op. 25 and 26 by Pfitzner, Le Bestiare and Cocardes by Poulenc, Two Poems Op. 9, The ugly duckling Op. 18, Five Poems by Bal'mont Op. 23 and Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova Op. 27 by Prokofiev, Songs of Sorrow by Quilter, Fourteen Songs Op. 34 and Six Songs Op. 38 by Rachmaninov, Trois poèmes d'amour and Trois mélodies by Satie, Two Songs op. 70, Evening, op. 71, no. 2, Four Songs op. 72, Three Songs op. 74, Old Song Ended, Love's Aftermath, In the Valley, Little Song of Picardie, Pierrot and the Moon Maiden, Sleep Song, For a Dream's Sake, Where Be Going?, Autumn Song, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Birthday, Nocturne, Retrospect, Spring Song, Sumer Is Icumen In, Song of Arcady, Prayer, Lilac-Time, Evening Melody, Autumn's Lute, Meditation, Night Song, Tyrolese Evensong, Rain, Invocation, Garrison Churchyard, Requiem, Little Bells of Sevilla, Looking Back, Pilgrim Cranes, Sands of Dee, Sunshine and Dusk, Oracle, Alone, In Absence, Tranquility, Time O'Day, Pastorale, Old Loves, Sea-Fret, She's But a Lassie Yet and Sundown by Scott, Six Songs Op. 90 by Sibelius, Op. 66, 67, 68 and 69 by Strauss, Es geht ein Wind, Es fallt ein Stern, Trennung, Mädchenlied, Epiphanias, Green, À Cassandre, La Maison de Bonheur, Ich wanderte unter den Bäumen and Voici les lieux Charmants by van Dieren, Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams, The Wind from the West, A Lake and a Fairy Boat, Music, when soft voices die, The Everlasting Voices, The Cloths of Heaven, Saudades, The Water Lily, I asked a thief, Bright is the Ring of Words, To the Memory of a Great Singer, Take, O Take those Lips Away, As ever I saw, My Gostly Fader, The bayley berith the bell away, Whenas the Rye, Dedication, Love for Love, My Sweet Little Darling, Sweet Content, Bulalalow, Mourn no Mor, Romance and There is a Lady Sweet and Kind by Warlock, Vier Lieder Op. 12 by Webern, Fünf Lieder Op. 46, Vier Lieder Op. 47, Sechs Lieder Op. 48, Abendlieder Op. 51, Vier Lieder Op. 55, Daheim Op. 59 and Blüten aus dem Osten Op. 63 by Weingartner, Elf Gedichte, Sechs Gedichte Op.1, Acht Volkslieder Op.2, Sechs Gedichte Op.3, Sechs Gedichte Op.4, Sieben Gedichte Op.5, Vier Gedichte Op.8, Drei Gedichte Op.9, Vier Gedichte Op.10 by Wetzel, Sechs Lieder Op. 13 by Zemlinsky.
- 1920 - 1929
- Schließe mir die Augen beide by Berg, Sainte, Bonjour mon coeur, La Terre les eaux va buvant, Ô mon ange gardien, Baiser and La Cloche fêlée by Bréville, Beware!, Quatre Chansons Françaises and The Birds by Britten, Cinq Ballades de Paul Fort, Le livre rose, La cloche felée, La mort des pauvres, La part à Dieu, Sonnet: Doux fut le trait, Loué soit mon Seigneur and Corbeille de fruits by Caplet, My Love Is in a Light Attire by Carter, L'Offrande Lyrique, Image, Fontaines, Cinq Robaïyats, Vocalise Étude and Sur la mer by Cras, A Christmas Carol by Davidson, Lieder nach Friedrich Nietzsche by Delius, ten songs by Egk, Dies Natalis and A Young Man's Exhortation by Finzi, The Fields Are Full, Nod and Silver by Gibbs, A Green Cornfield, Money-O and Sweet Chance by Head, Six Cheerful Songs, General William Booth, The Everlasting Mercy, The Lay of the Laborer, The Widow in the Bye Street and Three Songs from the Slums by Homer, King David by Howells, Versailles, Les heures, Deux poèmes japonais, Épiphanie, L'inconnue, Lied, Madonne, Le mariage de Marion, Mélancholie, Sonnez les matines, Deux chansons dans le style populaire and Impressions d'Alsace by Hüe, The Vagabond by Ireland, the Nordic Period songs Op. 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 33 and 45 by Kilpinen, Vier Lieder des Abschieds op. 14, Three Lieder Op. 22, Drei Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hans Kaltneker op. 18 and Drei Lieder op. 22 by Korngold, O Lacrymosa, Stella's Monologue and Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen by Krenek, Amours by Lehár, 3 Songs for Low Voice by Lehmann, Marienlieder by von Pander, Op. 29, 30, 32, 33 and 35 by Pfitzner, Poèmes de Ronsard, Chansons gaillardes, Vocalise and Airs chantés by Poulenc, Five songs without words Op. 35, Five Poems by Bal'mont Op. 37 and Five Kazakh Popular Songs by Prokofiev, Three Songs of William Blake, The Fuchsia Tree and Five English Love Lyrics by Quilter, Ronsard à son âme, Chansons Madécasses, and Rêves by Ravel, Trois petites mélodies and Ludions by Satie, Night Wind, Our Lady of Violets, Watchman, Water-Lilies, Immortality, Have Ye Seen Him Pass By?, All Through the Night, Huckster, Minstrel Boy, I'll Bid My Heart Be Still, Blythe and Merry Was She, By Yon Bonnie Banks, Cherry Ripe, Comin' Thro' the Rye, Villanelle of Firelight, Reconciliation, From Afar, In the Silver Moonbeams, Garden of Memory, What Art Thou Thinking Of?, Mist, Angelus , Ballad of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel, op. 8, Lord Randall, Aspiration, To-Morrow, Sea-Song of Gafran, March Requiem and If We Must Part by Scott, Five Songs of the Orient Op. 77, Und dann nicht mehr and Von künftigen Alter by Strauss, Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle, À Cassandre, Balow, O! quand je dors, Schon Rohtraut, These are the Sorrows, She, alas, I love in vain, With margerain gentle, Weep you no more, sad fountains, Spring Song of the Birds, Take, O take those lips away, Dream Pedalry, Who shall have my dear Lady ?, Spring, the sweet Spring, Quaint Old Song for Christmas Time, Spleen, Last Days, Mild is the Parting Year, The Touch of Love dispels the Gloom, Love must be Gone, She I love, alas in vain, The Leaves are Falling; so am I, One year ago my path was green, Der Asra, Rondel, The stranger 'lighted from his steed and Asleep ! O sleep a little while by van Dieren, Play Acting, True Toper's Tunes, Late Summer, Good Ale, Hey troly loly lo, The Batchelor, Piggesnie, Little Trotty Wagtail, The Singer, Adam lay ybounden, Rest, sweet Nymphs, Sleep, Tyrley Tyrlow, Lillygay, Peterisms, In an Arbour Green, Autumn Twilight, Milkmaids, Candlelight, Jenny Gray, Two short songs, Consider, Twelve Oxen, The Toper's Song, Sweet and Twenty, Peter Warlock's Fancy, Yarmouth Fair, I have a Garden, Chanson du Jour de Noël, Pretty Ring Time, Two Songs, The Countryman, Maltworms, Robin Goodfellow, Julian of Berry, Away to Twiver, Fair and True, Four Belloc Songs, The First Mercy, The Lover's Maze, Cradle Song, Sigh no more, Ladies, Walking the Woods, Mockery, The Jolly Shepherd, Queen Anne, Passing by, Seven Songs of Summer, And wilt thou leave me thus ?, The Cricketers of Hambledon, Fill the Cup, Philip and The Frostbound Wood by Warlock, Lieder Op. 68, Lieder Op. 70, Lieder Op. 75 and Lieder Op. 76 by Weingartner, Fünfzehn Gedichte Op.11 by Wetzel, Zwei Lieder von Mechthild von Magdeburg, Vöglein Schwermut, Der Abend ist mein Buch, Rothe Äuglein, Idylle, Kleiner Erfolg, Schlummerlied, Fünf Lieder von Friedrich Hölderlin, Sechs Bearbeitungen Ostjüdischer Volkslieder, Drei Lieder nach Heinrich von Kleist, Neun Vertonungen aus Gitanjali, Zwei Fabeln für Bariton und Klavier, Eine unterdrückte Klasse, An Anna Blume von Kurt Schwitters, Decret Nr. 2: An die Armee der Künstler, Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Erich Kästner, Drei Lieder von Willi für Alt und Klavier and Drei Arbeitslieder von Thomas Ring by Wolpe.
- 1930 - 1939
- Songs at Parting by Bacon, Three Songs Op. 2 and Three Songs Op. 10 by Barber, Shepherd's Holiday by Benjamin, How Love Came In by Berkeley, Six Chansons, Danger de Mort, Memnon, Scenes from the Door, There my Lost Hands, Green Songs, Rain Rots the Wood, Twelve American Folk Songs, Four American Folk Songs and An American Hero by Bowles, 12 Rondels de Charles d'Orléans by Bréville, Friday afternoons, A poison tree, When you're feeling like expressing your affection, Our Hunting Fathers, Cabaret Songs, Not even summer yet, The red cockatoo, On This Island and Les Illuminations by Britten, De cara al mar by Casals, Trois Chansons Bretonnes by Cras, Rollicum Rorum, The Sigh and Let us Garlands Bring by Finzi, The Ship of Rio by Gibbs, the Humbert Wolfe Songs by Holst, Mélancholie du souvenir, Chanson, Mélodie, La Polletaise, Passereau, Passerose, Berceuse pour les Geux and La nuit immortelle by Hüe, Lieder der Liebe Op. 61 and Lieder um den Tod Op. 62 by Kilpinen, Die Nachtigal by Krenek, Les Compagnons d'Ulysse by Lehár, Five songs for soprano, Four songs for tenor and piano and Six songs for tenor, soprano and piano by Lutyens, Unvergänglichkeit, Narrenlieder op. 29 and Vier Lieder nach Shakespeare op. 31 by Korngold, Songs Op. 52 by Medtner, Op. 40 and 41 by Pfitzner, Épitaphe, Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne, Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, Cinq Poèmes de Max Jacob, Huit Chansons Polonaises, Cinq poèmes d'Eluard, À sa guitarre, Tel jour telle nuit, Trois poèmes, Deux poèmes, Miroirs brûlants, Le portrait, La grenouillère, Priez pour paix, Ce doux petit visage, Bleuet and Fiançailles pour rire by Poulenc, Two Songs from Lieutenant Kijé Op. 60b, Three Children's Songs Op. 68, Three Romances Op. 73, Three Songs from Aleksandr Nevskiy Op. 78b and Seven Songs Op. 79 by Prokofiev, I Arise from Dreams of Thee and How Should I your true love know by Quilter, Drei Lieder Op. 48 by Schoenberg, Mermaid's Song, Little Foreigner, Lady June and Arise My Love, My Fair One by Scott, Four Romances Op. 46 by Shostakovic, Junge Liebe by Tintner, Weeping and Kissing, Doch die Kastraten Klagten, Mit deinen blauen Augen, Was will die einsame Thräne, Seraphine, A prayer and Frail the White Rose by van Dieren, Bachianas Brasileiras by Villa-Lobos, After Two Years, The Fox and Bethlehem Down by Warlock, Drei Gesänge Op. 23 and Drei Gesänge Op. 25 by Webern, 21 Gedichte Op.13 by Wetzel, Zwei Lieder nach Gedichten von Johannes R. Becher, Acht Lieder auf Texte von Heine, Ottwalt, Weinert, und anderen, Politische Satyren, Vier Antikriegslieder, Hebrew Solo Songs, Zwei Lieder aus dem Hohenlied, Four Songs from Ballad of the Unknown Soldier, Drei Lieder für Bass und Klavier, Vier Lieder für Alt oder Bariton und Klavier and Two Songs of Bialik by Wolpe. Wind by Xian, Und einmal gehst du, Sechs Lieder, Das bucklichte Männlein, Ahnung Beatricens, Zwölf Lieder and Three Songs by Zemlinsky
- 1940 - 1949
- Three Theatrical Songs by Babbitt, Four Songs Op. 13 and Two Songs Op. 18 by Barber, Being Young and Green by Bliss, Five Songs about Spring, Two Skies, Night without Sleep, Cuatro Canciones, Three Songs from the Sierras, They Cannot Stop Death, The Frozen Horse, Blue Mountain Ballads, Farther from the Heart, Once a Lady was Here, When Rain or Love Began, Sailor's Song, Baby Baby, Three, On a Quiet Conscience and Letter to Freddy by Bowles, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Wild with passion (Song, on the water), If thou wilt ease thine heart, Cradle Song (Sleep, my darling, sleep), Serenade, Birthday song for Erwin, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Canticle I and A charm of lullabies by Britten, The Estuary and Lavendar Pond by Head, Fünf Lieder op. 38 and Sonett für Wien op. 41 by Korngold, Four Songs by Krenek, Dalai by Lehár, Summer's Sadness, Willow Song, Holiday Piece, O Fons Bandusiae, Song Thinking of Her Dead, Li Po in Spring, Summer Afternoon and The Islands by Lilburn, In the temple of a bird's wing Op. 37 by Lutyens, Banalités, Chansons villageoises, Métamorphoses, Deux Poèmes, Montparnasse, Hyde Park, Le pont, Un poème, Paul et Virginie, Mais mourir, Hymne, Trois chansons de García Lorca, Le disparu, Main dominé par le coeur, Calligrammes and Mazurka by Poulenc, Twelve Russian Folksongs Op. 104 and Two Duets Op. 106 by Prokofiev, Drooping Wings and Old Songs by Quilter, And they hung him from a tree by Still, Six Romances Op. 62 and Songs from Jewish Folk Poetry by Shostakovic and Four Last Songs by Strauss, Liebeslied by Tintner, Boyhood's End by Tippett, Drei Lieder von Bertolt Brecht, Three Songs for Medium Voice and Piano and Songs from The Domestic Breviary by Wolpe.
- 1950 - 1959
- Nuvoletta Op. 25, Mélodies passagères Op. 27 and Hermit Songs Op. 29 by Barber, Two Songs from The Tempest by Bowles, Abraham and Isaac, Winter Words, Still falls the Rain, Songs from the Chinese, Nocturne and 6 Hoelderlin Fragmente by Britten, Tres estrofas de amor and El angel travieso by Casals, Lines in Autumn, Elegy, Sings Harry, Clear Sky and The Picnic by Lilburn, La Fraicheur et le Feu, Parisiana, Rosemonde, Le travail du peintre, Deux mélodies, Dernier poème and Une chanson de porcelaine by Poulenc, Five Monologues Op. 91 by Shostakovic, Four French Folksongs by Seiber, Dois Sonetos by de Sousa, The Heart's Assurance by Tippett, and Im Stillen Reich by Wetzel.
- 1960 - 1969
- Despite and Still by Barber, Gothic Suite by Bowles, Um Mitternacht, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, The Poet's Echo and Who are these children? by Britten, Leuchtende Nacht by Brugk, Cupid and my Campbase by Dalby, Four Houseman fragments and Tender only to one by Holloway, Lullay Lullay Thou Tiny Little Child by Hope, The Flea and Wechselrahmen by Krenek, Four Divine Poems of John Donne by le Gallienne, The egocentric and The supplicant by Lutyens, La courte paille by Poulenc, Andalusiana by Reutter, Gesänge Op. 1 by Rihm, Spring-Day by Scott, Satires Op. 109, Five Romances from Krokodil Op. 121, Preface to the Complete Edition of my Works Op. 123 and Seven Blok Romances Op. 127 by Shostakovic, Three Poems of Walter de la Mare by Smalley, The Road Goes Ever On by Swann and Songs for Ariel by Tippett.
- 1970 - 1979
- Three Songs Op. 45 by Barber, Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi, Canticle V: The death of St Narcissus, A Birthday Hansel and Phaedra by Britten, Five Poems by Desyatnikov, Quatre Mélodies sur des textes d'André Gide by Gabus, Banal sojourn, Georgian songs, Five little songs about Death, Lights out, In the 30th year, Author of Light, This is just to say, The blue doom of summer, Willow Cycle, From high windows, Killing time, The noon's repose and A medley of nursery rhymes by Holloway, Norah's Song to the Skull by Lilburn, Clepsidra by Lopes-Garça, In the direction of the beginning Op. 76 and That sun Op. 137 and Lutyens, Vier Gedichte aus "Atemwende", Alexanderlieder, Hölderlin-Fragmente and Neue Alexanderlieder by Rihm, Nantucket Songs by Rorem, Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva Op. 173, Suite to the Poems of Michelangelo Buonarotti Op. 175 and Four Poems of Captain Lebyadkin Op. 176 by Shostakovic and Songs for Dov by Tippett.
- 1980 - 1989
- Dora's Girls and Daybreak from "Cannery Row", Sonnet CXVI, the Cambridge ladies, Buffalo Bill's, This Perfect World, it may not always be so; and i say, Southern Pacific, little tree, why did you go, chansons innocentes, Three Little Americana Songs, Three Poems of Walter de la Mare, wanta spend six dollars kid, All That's Past, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, A Hymn to God the Father, My Sweet Mistress, Thought for a Sunshiny Morning, i'm very fond of black bean soup, Four songs from "The Tempest", Hollywood, Voices Under Milk Wood and Goethe-lieder by Bachlund, De Profundis and Nacht by Billam, My Love was Light by Bowles, Mirabai by Harbison, Whatever we may be and The lover's well by Holloway, Lenz-Fragmente and Wölfli-Liederbuch by Rihm, Song Cycle for Gina by Tavener.
- 1990 - 1999
- La Mort, Green, Le Silence, Unsinn Poesie, Kein Elend, Lore Lay, Es stot ein lind in himelreich, Forelle Müllerin Art, Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm, Sole e amore, Kleengedichtjes, Lausn, Four Epigrams of Asclepiades, Consolation, Live with Me, A Rational Anthem, From the Song of Songs, I Will Love You Anywhere, Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Felix Randal and The Pilgrim Soul by Bachlund. Three Songs and Tres Casidas del Diván del Tamarit by Billam, Of Challenge and of Love by Carter, Counterpoise by Druckman, The Faces of Love, Encountertenor, Eve-Song, Thoughts Unspoken, Natural Selection, Paper Wings, Songs to the Moon and Of Gods and Cats by Heggie, Six Songs from the Arabian by Henze, Three Love Songs by Hogan, Rubaiyat, Jesu Redemptor Omnium and Borrow'd Light by David Lewiston Sharpe, Sólarljód by Plagge, Das Rot, Vier Gedichte von Peter Härtling, Drei Gedichte von Monique Thoné, Apokryph, Nebendraußen and Ende der Handschrift by Rihm, Akhmatova Songs by Tavener.
Grouping the composers by publisher, we have
Associated Music Publishers publish Harbison and Villa-Lobos.
bachlund.org publish Bachlund.
Baerenreiter publish Marx.
Bardic Edition ( www.bardic-music.com, 6 Fairfax Crescent, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 2ES, England ) publish Horder.
Böhm Verlag ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Böhm_&_Sohn, www.boehm-und-sohn.de, +49 821 50284-0 Lange Gasse 26 D-86152 Augsburg ) publish von Pander.
Boosey and Hawkes ( www.boosey.com ) publish Bartók, Bliss, Britten, Carter, Dalby, Delius, Finzi, Hope, Howells, Ireland, Milhaud, Rorem, Scott, Somervell, Strauss, Turnage, Vaughan Williams and Warlock. They also distribute Winthrop Rogers who publish Benjamin, Berkeley, Bridge, Davidson, Gibbs, Head, Quilter and Warlock.
Bote und Bock (acquired by Robert Lienau, now owned by Zimmermann) publish Kilpinen.
Breitkopf and Härtel ( www.breitkopf.com ) publish Eisler and Kilpinen.
Max Brockhaus publish Pfitzner.
Chester Music (8-9 Frith Street, London W1V 5TZ) publish Lutyens, Tavener and Warlock.
Classical Vocal Reprints ( www.classicalvocalrep.com ) publish Bacon.
Dover publish Debussy, Fauré, Gustav Mahler, Rachmaninov and Ravel.
Durand publish Caplet, Delannoy, Messiaen, Milhaud, Jolivet, Lesur, Poulenc, Ravel and Roussel.
Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques (14 avenue Hoche, Paris 8e, France) publish Gabus.
Elkin Music Services ( www.elkinmusic.co.uk, Norwich, UK ) own Thames Publishing. They publish Scott. See also Music Sales.
Eschig publish Auric, Françaix, Poulenc, Symanowski and Villa-Lobos.
Faber and Faber publish Britten and Smalley.
Fazer publish Kilpinen.
Heugel publish Auric, Delannoy, Dupont, Hahn, Hüe, Jolivet, Milhaud, Poulenc and Sauget.
Hug (Hug Musikverlag, Limmatquai 28, Postfach CH-8022 Zürich) publish Schoeck.
International Music Company publish Hahn.
Alphonse Leduc (175, rue Saint-Honoré, 75040 Paris Cedex 01, France) publish Hahn, Hüe, Ibert and Poulenc.
Henri Lemoine ( www.henry-lemoine.com ) publish Gabus.
Alfred Lengnick or Complete Music publish Horder and Lutyens.
Masters Music, of Florida, USA, ( www.masters-music.com ), formerly Kalmus, publish Butterworth, Delius, Finzi, Nielsen, Rachmaninov, Strauss, Warlock and Zemlinsky.
Merion Music are associated with Theodore Presser and publish Charles Ives.
Music of Moscow, Russia, publish Shostakovic.
Music Sales publish Warlock. They also distribute R H Elkin, Curwen and Novello.
Norsk Musikforlag publish Dørumsgaard
Novello publish Somervell. See also Music Sales.
Oxford University Press publish Delius, van Dieren and Warlock.
Peters publish Pfitzner and Rorem.
pjb.com.au publish Billam.
Ricordi publish Lesur, Sauget and Zemlinksky.
Salabert publish Leguerney, Honegger, Poulenc and Roussel.
Schirmer ( www.schirmer.com ) publish Barber, Bowles, Carter, Harbison, Heggie, Hogan and Homer.
Schott publish Egk, Fortner, Françaix, Henze, Hindemith, Horder, Krenek, Lutyens, Mahler, Milhaud, Pfitzner, Reimann, Reutter, Scott, Seiber, Tippett and Wimberger.
Simrock publish Brugk.
Stainer and Bell publish Warlock. They also distribute Augener.
Thames Publishing publish Bax, Butterworth, Gurney, Holst, Moeran, Quilter, Swann, van Dieren and Warlock. Thames is now owned by Elkin Music Services and may also be distributed by Schirmer and by Novello. They specialise in British music, often re-publishing songs otherwise out of print under licence from the original publisher.
Tischer & Jagenberg publish Wetzel.
Universal Edition (Postfach 130, A-1015 Wien) publish Bartók, Berg, Eisler, Krenek, Alma Mahler, Rihm, Schoenberg, Symanowski, Webern, Zemlinsky.
Edition Walhall publish Kempff.
Josef Weinberger ( www.josef-weinberger.com ) publish Lehár and originally published Alma Mahler. They are also associated with Glocken Verlag.
Westerliegh Publications ( Thornhough, Lustleigh, Devon, England ) publish Horder.
- Georges Auric
-
Georges Auric has written about thirty
mélodies for voice and piano including
- Six poèmes de Paul Eluard (Heugel)
- Trois poèmes de Léon-Paul Fargue (Eschig)
- Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin (Eschig)
- Trois poèmes de Max Jacob (Heugel)
- Milton Babbitt
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The compositions of Milton Babbitt for voice and piano include
- Three Theatrical Songs (1946) from a music theatre piece based on Homer's Odyssee, incl: Now You See It (Circe's song)
- Gary Bachlund
-
The pre-2000 compositions of Gary Bachlund for voice and piano include:
- Dora's Girls from "Cannery Row" (1983, John Steinbeck)
- Daybreak from "Cannery Row" (1983, John Steinbeck)
- Sonnet CXVI (1983, Shakespeare)
- the Cambridge ladies (1983, E. E. Cummings)
- Buffalo Bill's (1983, E. E. Cummings)
- This Perfect World (1983, David Fries) incl: Memories, Friends and The Dance
- it may not always be so; and i say (1983, E. E. Cummings)
- Southern Pacific (1984, Carl Sandburg) for tenor and baritone and piano
- little tree (1984, E. E. Cummings)
- why did you go (1984, E. E. Cummings)
- chansons innocentes (1984, E. E. Cummings) in Just, hist whist and Tumbling-hair
- Three Little Americana Songs (1985) incl: Nature, Ann Street and Like a Sick Eagle
- Three Poems of Walter de la Mare (1985) incl: Alas, Alack!, The Song of the Shadows and Silver
- wanta spend six dollars kid (1985, E. E. Cummings)
- All That's Past (1986, Walter de la Mare)
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (1986, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- A Hymn to God the Father (1987, John Donne)
- My Sweet Mistress (1989, Shakespeare)
- Thought for a Sunshiny Morning (1989, Dorothy Parker)
- i'm very fond of black bean soup (1989, E. E. Cummings)
- Four songs from "The Tempest" (1989, Shakespeare) Stephano's Song, Where the Bee Sucks, Caliban's Song and Come Unto These Yellow Sands
- Hollywood (1989, Bertolt Brecht)
- Voices Under Milk Wood (1989, Dylan Thomas) First Voice, A Draper Mad With Love, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard Widow, Bessie Bighead, Oh There's a Face!, Whispers on the Stairs, Mary Ann Sailors, Remember Last Night?, The Children's Song, Polly Garter (singing), Knock Twice, Jack, A Puffball, Sunset Hymn , In Pembroke City and First Voice Last
- Goethe-lieder (1989) including: Das Alte, Ja schelte nur, Das Beste, Annonce, Lebenslust, Was bleibt denn and Hab ich nur geschrieben
- Talent (1990, Goethe)
- Three Blake Settings (1990, William Blake) incl: The Sick Rose, The Lilly and Ah! Sun-flower
- Love Songs of Dorothy Parker (1990) Two-Volume Novel, in the Smoke, General Review of the Sex Situation, Theory and Symptom Recital
- Because I could not stop for death (1990, Emily Dickinson)
- mr youse needn't be so spry (1990, E. E. Cummings)
- e. e.'s songs (1990, E. E. Cummings) incl: Jimmie's got a goil, raise the shade will you dearie?, mary green, says ol man no body-, time, be kind and plato told him
- La Mort (1990, Charles Baudelaire) incl: Prélude, La Mort des Amants, La Mort des Pauvres, La Mort des Artistes, La Fin de la Journée, La Rêve d'un curieux, Pour l'enfant, Les vrais Voyageurs, Interlude, Horreur! and Pour le Voyage
- Green (1990, Paul Verlaine)
- Le Silence (1991, Alfred de Vigny)
- Kleengedichtjes - (1991, Guido Gezelle) incl: Vlaamsche poësis, Als de ziel luistert, Janneke, De winden, Naar Hem, Snee and In de blijde mei!
- seeker of truth (1991, E. E. Cummings)
- the secrets of living (1991, E. E. Cummings)
- The Quilt (1991, Gary Bachlund)
- Weeping Is A Comfort (1991, Gary Bachlund)
- Songs for the Victim of AIDS (1991, Gary Bachlund) incl: Clever Death, Stupid Death, It was a cross, Room A-460, Yesterday, A Litany of Finger Pointing and The Quilt
- To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned (1991, D. H. Lawrence)
- Chamber Music (1991, James Joyce) incl: Make Music Sweet, Twilight , Goldenhair, Where Love Did Sometime Go, Pain, Companion, Gentle Lady, Rain Has Fallen and I Hear an Army
- Small Homes (1991, Carl Sandburg)
- o by the by (1991, E. E. Cummings)
- "Alice" Songs (1991, Lewis Carroll) incl: Childhood Dreams, Little Crocodile, Pig and Pepper, The Mock Turtle's Lament, Jabberwocky, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion and the Unicorn and Queen Alice
- Ancient Music (1991, Ezra Pound)
- A Prayer for Today (1991, Ambrose Bierce)
- Blue Mountain Ballads (1991, Tennessee Williams) incl: Sugar in the Cane, Heavenly Grass, Cabin and Lonesome Man
- Anne Frank (1992, Michael O'Loughlin)
- Little Questions (1992, Gary Bachlund)
- Sole e amore (1993, Giacomo Puccini)
- Lausn (1995 Pétúrsson) in Icelandic, incl: Sungið, sagt og ted, Þurfamaður, Daglega and Lofa pinn guð
- Four Epigrams of Asclepiades (1995) in Greek, incl: Zeu, Nicaretes, Oenos and Pin', Asclepiades
- Unsinn Poesie (1995, Brigitte Peter, Gerhard Rühm and Martin Walser) incl: Ein Zungenzerfitzler, Sonnett and Professoren-Liedchen
- Kein Elend (1995, Goethe) for soprano
- Lore Lay (1995, Clemens Brentano) for mezzo soprano and piano (or orchestra)
- Es stot ein lind in himelreich (1996, H. Loufenberg c. 1450) for medium voice
- Forelle Müllerin Art (1996) a recipe for trout after Schubert, for baritone
- Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm (1996) including: Bittersüß (Præludium), Noch einmal, Zwischen mir und dir and Tag
- Consolation (1996, Ambrose Bierce)
- Live with Me (1997, Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh, quoted by Shakespeare)
- A Rational Anthem (1998, Ambrose Bierce)
- From the Song of Songs (1998) incl: I am black, but comely, My Love, I am sick with love, Return! and A Seal Upon Your Heart
- I Will Love You Anywhere (1999, Mark Burstein, after Dr. Seuss)
- Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1999) incl: Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur, Spring and To Call Thee Love
- Felix Randal (1999, Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- The Pilgrim Soul (1999, William Butler Yeats)
- Ernst Bacon
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The compositions for voice and piano of Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) include
- Fifty Songs, published by Dragon's Teeth Press, 1974.
- Four Poems by Emily Dickinson, a short cycle including Its All I Have To Bring, So Bashful, To Make A Prairie and This Of All My Hopes
- Songs at Parting (Walt Whitman, 1930) 8 songs incl: no. 5 One Thought Ever At The Fore, reprinted by Classical Vocal Reprints
- Samuel Barber
-
Samuel Barber's compositions for voice and piano include
- Ten Early Songs incl: Slumber Song of the Madonna (Alfred Noyes)
- Three Songs Op. 2 (1935 ?) incl: The Daises (Stephens), With rue my heart is laden (Housemann) and Bessie Bobtail (Stephens)
- Three Songs Op. 10 (1938 ?) incl: Rain had fallen, Sleep now and I hear an army (Joyce)
- Four Songs Op. 13 (1940 ?) incl: A Nun Takes the Veil (Hopkins), The Secrets of the Old (Yeats), Sure on this shining night (Agee) and Nocturne (Prokosch)
- Two Songs Op. 18 (1943) incl: The queen's face on the summery coin (Horan) and Monks and Raisins (García Villa)
- Nuvoletta Op. 25 (1951 ?) on a poem by James Joyce
- Mélodies passagères Op. 27 (1951 ?) incl: Puisque tout passe, Un cygne, Tombeau dans un parc, Le clocher chante and Départ (Rilke)
- Hermit Songs Op. 29, (anon, 8th - 13th centuries, 1953) incl: At St Patrick's Purgatory, Church Bell at Night, St. Ita's Vision, The Heavenly Banquet, The Crucifixion, Sea-Snatch, Promiscuity, The Monk and his Cat, The Praises of God and The Desire for Hermitage
- Despite and Still, Op. 41 (1968 ?) incl: A Last Song (Graves), My Lizard (Röthke), In the Wilderness (Graves), Solitary Hotel (Joyce) and Despite and Still (Graves)
- Three Songs Op. 45 (1973 ?) incl: Now I have fed and eaten up the Rose (Keller tr. Joyce), A Green Lowland of Pianos (Milosz tr. Harasymonovicz) and O boundless, boundless evening (Heym tr. Middleton)
- Béla Bartók
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The compositions for voice and piano of Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
include
- Fünf Lieder Op. 15 (1916), incl: Im Tale
- Fünf Lieder Op. 16 (1916), on poems by Endre Ady
- Hungarian Folksongs Op 64 incl: no. 1 Fekete fod (Black is the earth) no. 4 Annyi banat a szuvemen (So much sorrow) and no. 7 Eddig valo dolgom (Up until now my work)
- Hungarian Folksongs Op 92 incl: no. 1 A Tomlocben (In prison), no. 2 Regi keserves (Old lament), no. 8 Hatforintos nota (Six-florin dance) and no. 11 Parosito I (Mating I).
- Arnold Bax
-
The post-1900 compositions for voice and piano of Arnold Bax (1883 - ?)
include
- Seven Selected Songs, (1918) incl: The White Peace, Cradle Song and The Rann of Exile.
- Six Songs incl: When we are lost, Song in the twilight, A lullaby (duplicate ?), Spring rain, Youth and Dermot McMorna, published by Thames.
- Twelve Songs incl: Far in a western brookland (Housman), When I was one-and-twenty (Housman), I the morning, Parting, Rann of wandering, I heard a soldier, Market girl (T. Hardy), On the bridge, Carrey Clarel and Eternity, published by Thames.
- Arthur Benjamin
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The compositions for voice and piano of Arthur Benjamin include
- Shepherd's Holiday, (Elinor White, 1936)
- Alban Berg
-
The compositions for voice and piano of Alban Berg (1885-1935) include
- Sieben Frühe Lieder, (1905-1908) (UE 8853), incl: Nacht (Hauptmann), Schilflied (Lenau), Die Nachtigall (Storm), Traumgekrönt (Rilke), Im Zimmer (Schlaf), Liebesode (Hartleben) and Sommertage (Hohenberg)
- Vier Lieder Op. 2, (1908-1909) (UE 8813), incl: Dem Schmerz sein Recht (Hebbel), and three songs from Der Glühende (Mombert)
- Fünf Lieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg Op. 4 (1911-1912) (UE 12126), incl: Seele, wie bist du schöner, Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen, Über die Grenzen des All, Nichts ist Gekommen and Hier ist Friede
- Zwei Lieder "Schließe mir die Augen beide" (1900,1925) Storm (UE 12241)
- Lennox Berkeley
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The compositions of Lennox Berkeley for voice and piano include
- How Love Came In (Robert Herrick)
- Lord Gerald Berners
-
Gerald Berners (1883-1950) was essentially self-taught.
He was honorary attaché in Rome from 1911 to 1919 where
he came to know Stravinsky and Casella.
He was made a baron in 1919 and became an eccentric English gentleman.
His early works are close to Les Six.
His compositions for voice and piano include
- Lieder Album
- Trois Chansons incl: La fiancée du timbalier
- Three English Songs
- Dialogue between Tom Filuter and his man by Ned the Dog-Stealer
- Three Songs a rediscovery of the English folksong idiom
- Red Roses and Red Noses sentimental, with a flowing lyrical line
- Come on Algernon music-hallish, written for the film Champagne Charlie
- Leonard Bernstein
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The compositions for voice and piano of Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) include
- I Hate Music! (A cycle of five Kid Songs, Bernstein) incl: My name is Barbara, Jupiter has seven moons, I hate music!, A big indian and a little indian and I'm a person too
- Music I heard with you (Conrad Aiken)
- To what you said (Walt Whitman)
- La bonne cuisine (4 songs) incl: Plum pudding, Queues de boef, Tavouk gueunksis and Civet á toute vitesse
- Two Love Songs incl: Extinguish my eyes and When my soul touches yours
- Peter Pan (4 songs) incl: My house, Peter, Peter, Who am I? and Never-land
- Candide (2 songs) incl: It must be so and Candide's lament
- What lips my lips have kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- So Pretty
- Piccola Ser
- Silhouette, (Galilee)
- From the Mass, A simple song and I go on
- From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Take care of this house
- Peter Billam
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The compositions of Peter Billam (1948 - ) for voice and piano include
- De Profundis and Nacht (1980), on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda
- Three Songs (1994), including From the 228'th chorus of Mexico City Blues (Jack Kerouac), All You Who Sleep Tonight (Vikram Seth) and In my craft or sullen art (Dylan Thomas)
- Tres Casidas del Diván del Tamarit (1997) on poems by García Lorca, including Casida del Llanto, Casida de la Rosa and Casida de las Palomas Oscuras
- Boris Blacher
-
Boris Blacher's compositions for voice and piano include
- Apréslude Op. 57, incl: Gedicht and Worte on texts by Gottfried Benn
- Arthur Bliss
-
The compositions of Arthur Bliss for voice and piano include
- Being Young and Green (1942, Edna St Vincent Millay)
- William Bolcom
-
William Bolcom's compositions for voice and piano include
- Cabaret Songs, Book One
- Cabaret Songs, Book Two incl: Toothbrush Time (1979) and George (1981) (Arnold Weinstein)
- Cabaret Songs, Book Three
- Cabaret Songs, Book Four
- Lili Boulanger
-
The compositions of Lili Boulanger
(1893 - 1918) for voice and piano include
- Clairières dans le ciel, incl: Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme and Deux ancolies
- Paul Bowles
-
The compositions of Paul Bowles (New York 1910 - Tangiers 1999)
for voice and piano include:
- Six Chansons (1930-32) incl: It was a long trip back, Here I am, Will you allow me to lie in the grass, In the platinum forest (published in the Soundings collection), Things shall go on and Today, more than ever
- Danger de Mort (1932) a cycle of six songs
- Memnon (1935, Jean Cocteau) incl: Les statues, Memnon, Recette, La Grèce and Le sourire
- Scenes from the Door (1934, Getrude Stein) was Bowles' first printed musical composition, published by Éditions de la Vipère
- There my Lost Hands (1934)
- Green Songs (1935) incl: Grass, Moon, Farewell and Silence
- Rain Rots the Wood (1935)
- Twelve American Folk Songs (1939)
- Four American Folk Songs (1939)
- An American Hero (1939, words by Andrew Law and Nathaniel Niles) publ by Axelrod in 1944.
- Five Songs about Spring (1941) from the play Love Like Wildfire incl: Violet, Evening, Spring, Moonbeam and Owl
- Two Skies (1942)
- Night without Sleep (1943)
- Three Pastoral Songs (1944) incl: Down in yonder meadow, The feathers of the willow and The piper
- Cuatro Canciones (1944) incl: Cancioncilla, Media luna, Balad amarilla and Murio al amanacer
- Three Songs from the Sierras (1944) Que te falta, Ya llegó (published by Soundings as Mes de mayo) and El carbonera
- They Cannot Stop Death (1944, Joe Massey)
- The Frozen Horse (1945)
- Blue Mountain Ballads (1946, Tennessee Williams) incl: Lonesome Man, Heavenly Grass and Sugar in the Cane
- Heavenly Grass and Cabin Fever are in 15 Contemporary American Art Songs, Hal Leonard
- Farther from the Heart (Song of an old woman) (1946)
- Once a Lady was Here (1946)
- When Rain or Love Began (1946)
- Sailor's Song (1946)
- Baby Baby (1946)
- The Sheltering Sky
- Three (1947) is in Album 3, Vocal Repertoire, RCM, published by Frederick Harris Music
- On a Quiet Conscience (1947)
- Letter to Freddy (1947, Gertrude Stein) publ. by Schirmer
- Two Songs from Shakeseare's The Tempest (1950) incl: Full fathom five and Come unto these yellow sands
- Gothic Suite (1960) incl: Testa dell' Efebo, San Sebastiano di Sodoma, The Goths, Faint as Leaf Shadow and Death is High
- My Love was Light (1984)
- Pierre de Bréville
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The post-1900 compositions of Pierre de Bréville
for voice and piano include
- Quatre mélodies pour voix moyennes (1912) incl: Une jeune fille parle (Jean Moréas), Venise marine (Henri de Régnier), Berceuse (Henri de Régnier) and Sous les arches de roses (Charles van Lerberghe)
- Héros, je vous salue (1916, Henri de Régnier)
- France (1917, Henri de Régnier)
- Sainte (1922, Stéphane Mallarmé)
- Bonjour mon coeur (1925, Pierre de Ronsard)
- La Terre les eaux va buvant (1925, Pierre de Ronsard)
- Ô mon ange gardien (1925, Francis Jammes)
- Baiser (1926, Émile Cottinet)
- La Cloche fêlée (1926, Charles Baudelaire)
- 12 Rondels de Charles d'Orléans (1930)
- Frank Bridge
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The compositions of Frank Bridge for voice and piano include
- Go Not, Happy day (1916, Tennyson)
- Love Went A-Riding (1916, Mary E. Coleridge)
- So Perverse (1916, Robert Bridge)
- Benjamin Britten
-
The compositions of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) for voice and piano include
- Beware! (1922-1923)
- Quatre Chansons Françaises (1928) a setting of two poems each by Victor Hugo and Paul Verlaine, did not receive its premiere until 1980.
- The Birds (1929)
- Friday afternoons Op. 7 (1935)
- A poison tree (1935)
- When you're feeling like expressing your affection (1935 or 1936)
- Our Hunting Fathers Op. 8 (1936) five songs, incl: Rats Away! and Dance of Death written in collaboration with W. H. Auden, could be considered Britten's first truly original piece. The work's sharp dynamic shifts, irregular rhythms and rich coloration, combined with Auden's strange texts, mark it as strikingly original.
- Cabaret Songs (1937)
- Not even summer yet (1937)
- The red cockatoo (1938)
- On This Island Op. 11 (W. H. Auden, 1938), incl: Let the florid music praise, Now the leaves are falling fast, Seascape, Nocturne and As it is Plenty
- Two ballads
- Fish in the unruffled lakes
- Les Illuminations Op. 18 (1939)
- Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (1940)
- Wild with passion (Song, on the water) (1942)
- If thou wilt ease thine heart (1942)
- Cradle Song (Sleep, my darling, sleep) (1942)
- Serenade Op. 31 (1943)
- Birthday song for Erwin (1945),
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 (1945)
- Canticle I Op. 40 (1947)
- A charm of lullabies Op. 41 (1947)
- Canticle II "Abraham and Isaac" Op. 51 (1952)
- Winter Words Op. 52 (1953)
- Canticle III "Still falls the Rain" Op. 55 (1954)
- Songs from the Chinese Op. 58 (1957)
- Nocturne Op. 60 (1958)
- 6 Hoelderlin Fragmente Op. 61 (1958)
- Um Mitternacht (1959-1960)
- Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1963 or 1965)
- The Poet's Echo Op. 76 (1965) on poems by Pushkin
- Who are these children? Op. 84 (1969)
- Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi Op. 86 (1971)
- Canticle V: The death of St Narcissus Op. 89 (1974)
- A Birthday Hansel Op. 92 (1975)
- Phaedra Op. 93 (1975)
- Hans Melchior Brugk
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The compositions of Hans Melchior Brugk for voice and piano include
- Leuchtende Nacht (5 songs, Hans Carossa, 1965) incl: Der alte Brunnen
- Ferrucio Busoni
-
The compositions of Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924) for voice and piano include
- Ave Maria Op. 1
- Two Hebrew Songs on texts of Byron Op. 15, incl: Ich sah die Träne gross und schwer and An Babylons Wassern
- Altdeutches Tanzlied Op. 18 no. 1, Wohlauf ! Der kühle Winter ist vergangen (N. von Reuenthal)
- Zwei Lieder Op. 31, incl: Wer hat das erste Lied erdacht (Victor Blüthgen) and Bin ein fahrender Gesell (Rudolf Baumbach)
- Zwei Lieder Op. 24, incl: Es zieht sich eine blütige Spur (Lied des Monmouth) (Theodor Fontane) and Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath (E. von Feuchtersleben)
- Fünf Lieder nach Wolfgang Goethe incl: Es war eine Ratt im Kellernest (Lied der Brander von Faust), Es war einmal ein König (Lied der Mephistopholes von Faust), Kein Reimer wird man finden (Lied des Unmuts aus Westöstlicher Divan), Mitternachts weint' und schluchtzt' ich (Schlechter Trost aus Westöstlicher Divan), and Im Nebelgeriesel (Zigeunerlied, Op. 55 no. 2)
- George Butterworth
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The compositions of George Butterworth (1885-1916) for voice and piano include
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911) on poems by A. E. Houseman
- Bredon Hill and other Songs (1912) on poems by A. E. Houseman, also incl: O Fair Enough are Sky and Plain, When the Lad for Longing Sighs, On the Idle Hill of Summer and With Rue my heart is Laden
- Love blows as the wind blows
- Life in her creaking shoes
- Fill a glass with golden wine
- Coming up from Richmond
- André Caplet
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André Caplet (Le Havre 1878 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1925)
wrote about 35 mélodies for voice and piano.
They have important and difficult piano parts.
The post-1900 songs include
- Chanson d'automne (A. Silvestre, 1900, publ. 1908)
- Viens ! Une Flute invisible soupire (V. Hugo) originally for voice and orchestra (1900), later published for voice and piano (1918) and voice piano and flute (1925)
- Poème de Mai (A. Silvestre, 1902)
- Green (P. Verlaine, also set in an italian translation by R. Rossetti) in versions for piano or for orchestra (1903)
- Papillons (P. Gravollet) in versions for piano or for orchestra (1903)
- Lon lon la, chanson bretonne in versions for piano or for orchestra (1903)
- Il était une fois jadis (J. Richepin) in versions for piano or for orchestra (1904)
- Dans la fontaine (P. Gravollet) in versions for piano or for orchestra (1905)
- Tu nous souriais (R de la Villehervé, 1906)
- Paroles à l'absente (G. Jean-Aubry, 1908, publ. 1909) incl: Ce sable fin et fuyant (also avaliable for voice and piano quintet), Angoisse and Préludes
- En regardant ces belles fleurs (C. d'Orléans, 1914, publ. 1918)
- Nuit d'automne (H. de Régnier, 1915, publ. 1918)
- Solitude (J. Ochsé, 1915)
- Le vieux coffret (Remy de Gourmont, 1914-17, publ. 1918) incl: Songe Berceuse In una Selva Oscura and Forêt (particularly beautiful)
- Prière normande (J. Hérbetot, 1916, publ. 1918)
- Quand reverrai-je, hélas! (J. du Bellay, 1916, publ. 1918) for voice and harp or piano
- La Croix Douloureuse (Father Lacordaire, 1917, publ 1918)
- Détresse (H. Charasson, 1918, publ. 1919) also available for orchestra
- Panis Angelicus (1919, publ.1920)
- Pater Noster (1919)
- Pie Jesu (1919)
- Cinq Ballades de Paul Fort (1919, publ 1920) incl: Cloche d'Aube, La Ronde, Notre chaumière en Yveline, Songe d'une nuit d'éte and L'Adieu en Barque
- Le livre rose (P-J. Pain, 1920), incl: Le liver où je veux livre, Bébé premier prix d'innocence, Le maître d'école ou les pleurs de Bébé, nursery rhymes to celebrate the birth of Caplet's son
- La cloche felée (C. Baudelaire, 1922, publ 1924)
- La mort des pauvres (C. Baudelaire, 1922, publ 1924)
- La part à Dieu (chanson populaire, 1924, publ 1925)
- Sonnet: Doux fut le trait (P. de Ronsard, 1924) for voice and harp or piano
- Loué soit mon Seigneur (1925) for bass and piano
- Corbeille de fruits (R. Tagore, transl. H. du Pasquier, 1925), incl: Écoute, mon coeur for voice and flute, Ce qui me viendra de vos mains consentantes for voice and piano, and Donques la douleur et l'aise de l'amour for voice and flute
- Elliott Carter
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The compositions of Elliott Carter
for voice and piano include
- My Love Is in a Light Attire for voice and piano (1928)
- Of Challenge and of Love for soprano and piano (1994)
- Pablo Casals
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The post-1900 compositions of Pablo Casals (Vendrell 1876 - Puerto Rico 1973)
for voice and piano include
- De cara al mar (in Catalan, Joan Llongueras, 1935)
- Tres estrofas de amor (in Spanish, Tomas Blanco, 1958) dedicated to Marta Casals.
- Ballada de la nova Solvejg (in Catalan, Ventura Gasol)
- El angel travieso (in Spanish, Rafael Montañez, 1959)
- Aaron Copland
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The compositions of Aaron Copland
for voice and piano include
- The Boatman's Dance
- Old American Songs
- Jean Cras
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The post-1900 compositions of Jean Cras (Brest 1879 - Brest 1932)
for voice and piano include
- La Tour (1900)
- Sept Mélodies (1900-1905, Baudelaire, A. Droin, G. Rodenbach, P. Verlaine) also arranged for voice and string quartet.
- Elégies (1910, A. Samain) also arranged for voice and orchestra
- L'Offrande Lyrique (1920, R. Tagore, translated A. Gide) also arranged for voice and orchestra
- Image (1921, E. Schneider)
- Fontaines (1923, L. Jaques) also arranged for voice and orchestra
- Cinq Robaïyats (1924, translated F. Toussaint)
- Vocalise Étude (1928)
- Sur la mer (1929, V. Hériot)
- Trois Chansons Bretonnes (1932, J. Cras)
- George Crumb
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George Crumb's compositions for voice and piano include
- Apparition
- César Cui
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Most of the numerous compositions for voice and piano of César Cui
(Vilnius 1835 - Petrograd 1918) were written before 1900;
the post-1900 songs include
- Twenty-one Poems by Nekrasov (1902)
- Szesc piesni (Six Polish Songs, 1902)
- Otzvuki voynï (Echoes of War, Op. 66, 1904-5) ten romances
- Eighteen Poems by A. K. Tolstoy (Op. 67, 1904)
- Zmey (The Serpent, a fable, 1904), originally intended for Op. 66
- Musical Jokes and Experiments (1904-16), probably unpublished
- Vesenyaya pesnya (Spring Song, 1905)
- Lamento (1905)
- Trois Mélodies (1906)
- Zhelaniye (A Wish, 1906) for two sopranos and piano
- Six Poems by Mickiewicz (Op. 71, 1906-7)
- Neuf Mélodies (Op. 72, 1906-10)
- Seventeen Children's Songs (Op. 73, 1906-7)
- Seven Poems by Armenian Poets (Op. 75, 1907)
- Gimm Stasovu (Hymn to Stasov, 1907)
- Six Poems by Solonsky (Op. 76, 1908)
- Khrista Radi (For Christ's Sake, 1908)
- Seventeen more Children's Songs (Op. 78, 1909-10)
- Net, ne tebya (No, not You, 1910), a romance
- Ochnuvshiysya oryol (An Eagle Regaining Conciousness, 1912)
- Politicheskomu poetu (To the Political Poet, 1912)
- Twenty-four Poems (Lieder und Romanzen, Op. 86, 1913)
- Muzïkal'nïye miniatyurï, yumoreski, pis'ma (Musical Miniatures, Humoresques, Letters, Op. 87, 1913)
- Four Fables by Krïlov (Op. 90, 1913)
- Betye tevtona (Strike the Teuton, 1914) a romance
- Last Seventeen Children's Songs
- Budris and his Sons (Op. 98, 1915), also available for voice and orchestra
- Songs of the Western Slave (Op. 99, 1915), also available for voice and orchestra
- Baben' (1915)
- Ne tsvetok-li (No Flower, 1915)
- Spiski smerti (Lists of Death, 1915)
- Utro zhizni (Morning of Life, 1916) unpublished
- Gimn futurizmu (Hymn to Futurism, 1917)
- La Bataille (1918)
- Martin Dalby
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Martin Dalby's compositions for voice and piano include
- Cupid and my Campbase (1968, John Lyly)
- Richard Danielpour
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Richard Danielpour's compositions for voice and piano include
- Spirits In The Well on poems by Toni Morrison, incl: Down in the well, At some point, the world's beauty is enough, I envy public love and There are no new songs.
- Malcolm Davidson
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Malcolm Davidson's compositions for voice and piano include
- A Christmas Carol (1921, John Masefield)
- Claude Debussy
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Claude Debussy's post-1900 compositions for voice and piano include
- Trois chansons de France (1904) incl: Le temps a laissé son manteau (d'Orléans), La Grotte (Lhermite) and Pour ce que Plaisance est morte (d'Orléans)
- Fêtes Galantes (2ème collection) (1904) incl: Le ingénus, Le Faune and Colloque sentimentale (Verlaine)
- Maurice Delage
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The compositions of Maurice Delage for voice and piano include settings of
Ronsard and Cocteau.
- Poèmes Hindous incl: Lahore (Heine)
- Intermezzo (Heine), a poem about lotus blooms and hyacinths by the sacred waters of the Ganges.
- Sept Hai Kais
- Fables of de la Fontaine
- Death of a Samurai (Pierre Mores)
- Marcel Delannoy
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Marcel Delannoy (1898-1962) wrote about forty
mélodies for voice and piano, incl:
- Deux chansons de Clarin (Heugel)
- Quatre regrets de Joachim du Bellay (Durand)
- Cinq quatrains de Francis Jammes (Heugel)