O let the Night my blushes hide
| Song Title | O let the Night my blushes hide (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | William Smyth |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Age; Alarming; Allowing; Bearing; Blessed; Blushes; Care; Cheering; Concealing; Declaring; Destiny; Distress; Eyes; Faltering; Fate; Forever; Fortune; Gay; Guarding; Happy; Hard; Hardships; Hearts; Hiding; Honor; Hope; Hopeful; Love; Maidens; Mind; Modest; Night; Odious; Personification: Night; Pleased; Pride; Revealing; Ruined; Sighs; Sounds; Specters; Sun; Thoughtful; Time; Tired; Tongues; Waiting; Wasting; Weddings |
| First Line | Oh let the night my blushes hide (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24693 |
| Larger Work | 26 Welsh Songs (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Whiggism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (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/1ufX2GjrgnbrK2rWawFJTu?si=8AAApY1sSJaBvZGyQHkpYg |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 155 no. 7 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Range: | Eb4 - F5 (Search) |
| Original Key | Eb Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |