Love without Hope

Song TitleLove without Hope (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):John Richardson
Keyword(s) & Features: Adoration; Being Anxious; Birds; Bliss; Blushing; Bosoms; Care; Creating; Dear; Divine; Dreams; Drops; Envy; Eyes; Fancy; Farewell; Features; Glowing; Grief; Happiness; Heartache; Hearts; Heaving; Hope; Hopelessness; Hours; Jealousy; Joy; Knitting; Knowing; Longing; Love; Melting; Men; Mingling; Misery; Pure; Rapture; Sadness; Sharing; Sighing; Snow; Soft; Soothing; Sorrow; Souls; Speaking; Tenderness; Treachery; Trembling; Unhappiness; Unrequited Love; Unspoken Love; Visions; Waiting; Warmth; Watching; Yielding
First LineHer features speak the warmest heart (Search)
Average Duration2:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinewww.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26655
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d6/IMSLP59179-PMLP121424-Beethoven_-_26_Wallisische_Lieder_Voice_(Piano_Trio)_Violin_Cello_Piano_score.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/7sK2gsPFvUvGwn27TnP3RD?si=lQlnP35HT3yzTUV2yqd8pA
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: Eb4 - G5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson. Poet was a surgeon who was good friends with Robert Burns (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
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