The Dream
Song Title | The 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 Line | Last night worn with anguish (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24695 |
Larger Work | 26 Welsh Songs (Search) |
Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Courtly love (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/2kmGl3WC8or2NfcHxeqC6G?si=eLkFukLeSM-KB_62P3TZTw |
Catalog Designation | WoO 155 no. 14 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | 2 Sopranos |
Range: | H: D4; L: D4 - H: F5; L: F5 |
Original Key | Bb Major (Search) |
Premiered By | (Search) |
Notes | Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet popularized "cywydd" meter in poetry (Search) |
Other instrumentation and voice | 2 voices, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
Contributor | AL (Search) |