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When Mortals all to rest retire
Song Title
When Mortals all to rest retire (
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Composer(s):
Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):
William Smyth
Keyword(s) & Features:
Addressee: Moon
;
Anguish
;
Art
;
Bosoms
;
Burning
;
Calm
;
Charming
;
Comfort
;
Connection to Nature
;
Delusions
;
Disdain
;
Evening
;
Feeling
;
Freedom
;
Friends
;
Happiness
;
Hearing
;
Hearts
;
Hours
;
Inconstancy
;
Inspiring
;
Learning
;
Longing
;
Looking
;
Loss of Peace
;
Love
;
Lyres
;
Maidens
;
Moon
;
Mortals
;
Muses
;
Music
;
Nature
;
Night
;
Pain
;
Past
;
Peace
;
Pride
;
Rejecting
;
Requesting
;
Resting
;
Restoring
;
Retiring
;
Searching
;
Sighing
;
Sleep
;
Smiling
;
Songs
;
Spirits
;
Starting
;
Tears
;
Thoughts
;
Tyrants
;
Unhappiness
;
Unhappy Love
;
Unrest
;
Unwilling
;
Waking
;
Whispering
;
Wisdom
First Line
When mortals all to rest retire (
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Average Duration
4:00 (
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Year of composition
1817 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24690
Larger Work
26 Welsh Songs (
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Musical Form
Strophic (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Whiggism (
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Original Language
English (
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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/6h46q50KwUSjkzDQEZgrqx?si=mOICaniDRJSkWBVaMQeQDQ
Catalog Designation
WoO 155 no. 15 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Soprano
Range:
E4 - F5 (
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Original Key
A minor (
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Premiered By
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Notes
Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet was a Cambridge history professor (
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Other instrumentation and voice
Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (
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Contributor
AL (
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