Oh! thou hapless soldier
| Song Title | Oh! thou hapless soldier (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | William Smyth |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Abandoned; Agony; Alone; Ambition; Anguish; Battles; Beholding; Cheering; Comrades; Death; Deploring; Duet; Dying; Fainting; Falling; Fate; Flying; Fond; Funerals; Glory; Grief; Hearing; Hearts; Heroes; Legacies; Lonely; Lost; Maids; Military; Moaning; Mourning; Near; Plains; Power; Reading; Remembering; Sighing; Soldiers; Solitude; Stories; Tears; Wars |
| First Line | Oh! thou hapless soldier, left unseen to moulder (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1814 - 1816 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24558 |
| Larger Work | Twenty Irish 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/f/f5/IMSLP59207-PMLP121474-Beethoven_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_24_No_262_WoO_153.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/6zJIts3poT8tpztXKLXSc4?si=t4lT5DebSuGwv13ykeqizw |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 153 no. 10 (Search) |
| Range: | High voice: F4; Low voice: D4 - High voice: G5; Low voice: D5 |
| Original Key | F Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | 2 voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
| More Than One Voice? | Duet (Search) |