O Cruel Was My Father
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Susan McDaniel| Song Title | O Cruel Was My Father (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | Alexander Ballantyne |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Abandoning; Air; Anguish; Arms; Babies; Being Forsaken; Bereft; Bitter; Bowing; Breasts; Chilling; Cold; Cruel; Cruelty; Death; Death of a Child; Despairing; Disownment; Distressing; Doors; Dying; Exists in Composer-sanctioned Translation; Eyes; Falling; Fathers; Freezing; Gold; Gone; Grief; Gushing; Heads; Hearts; Heaven; Hushes; Injustices; Killing; Kissing; Knowing; Lads; Lamenting; Life; Lips; Little; Loss; Lost Love; Loud; Lovely; Mothers; Murdering; Pale; Piercing; Reviving; Sad; Seeing; Separation; Shields; Shut; Snow; Solitude; Tears; Thinking; Trickling; Warm; Wind; Winter; Wintry; Woe; Wretched; Wringing |
| First Line | O cruel was my father / O grausam war mein Vater (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1816 (Search) |
| Larger Work | 25 Schottische Lieder (London/Edinburgh 1818, Berlin 1822) (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Toryism; Kelso Mail (Newspaper); Ballantyne Press; Walter Scott; Folkloristics; (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP53078-PMLP98037-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_257_Op_108.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/5qFkOzHsgWhul205seeEjL |
| Catalog Designation | Op. 108, No. 15 (Search) |
| Complete Edition Reference | Beethoven Werke (Henle, 1994-2014) 11/1, 74 (Search) |
| Range: | C4 - D5 (Search) |
| Original Key | F Major (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | (1818) Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Piano. (1822 includes Flute) (Search) |