The Dream

Song TitleThe Dream (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):David ap Gwillim (Welsh)
Keyword(s) & Features: Altars; Anguish; Art; Beguiling; Being Anxious; Bells; Breasts; Compassionate; Death; Despair; Dreams; Duet; Fair one; Fantasy; Fleeing; Flying; Fond; Hearts; Hope; Horror; Imagination; Longing; Love; Malice; Mind; Night; Numbness; Pain; Passion; Present; Priests; Replying; Resting; Rewards; Senses; Souls; Sounds; Standing; Torture; Truth; Unanswered Love; Unrequited Love; Unrest; Victims; Visions; Waking; Weddings
First LineLast night worn with anguish (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24695
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsCourtly love (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/2kmGl3WC8or2NfcHxeqC6G?si=eLkFukLeSM-KB_62P3TZTw
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 14 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composer2 Sopranos
Range: H: D4; L: D4 - H: F5; L: F5
Original KeyBb Major (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet popularized "cywydd" meter in poetry (Search)
Other instrumentation and voice2 voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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