When Mortals all to rest retire

Song TitleWhen Mortals all to rest retire (Search)
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 LineWhen mortals all to rest retire (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1817 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=24690
Larger Work26 Welsh Songs (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsWhiggism (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/6h46q50KwUSjkzDQEZgrqx?si=mOICaniDRJSkWBVaMQeQDQ
Catalog DesignationWoO 155 no. 15 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: E4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyA minor (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesCommissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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