Farewell thou noisy Town
| Song Title | Farewell thou noisy Town (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Author(s): | William Smyth |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Belonging; Blessings; Blue; Connection to Nature; Desires; Discontentment; Dull; Evening; Eyes; Farewell; Finding; Health; Hours; Humility; Joy; Landscapes; Leaving; Leisure; Liberty; Longing; Love; Mind; Misery; Mountains; Nature; New; Noise; Objects; Passage of Time; Peace; Pleasure; Resting; Restlessness; Rural; Sadness; Scenes; Silence; Simple; Sky; Smiling; Spirits; Streams; Towns; Traveling; Unhappiness; Welcome; Woods |
| First Line | Farewell, farewell, thou noisy town (Search) |
| Average Duration | 1:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25069 |
| Larger Work | 26 Welsh 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/d/d6/IMSLP59179-PMLP121424-Beethoven_-_26_Wallisische_Lieder_Voice_(Piano_Trio)_Violin_Cello_Piano_score.pdf |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/1cmv2pirjI08tlaibpqUgO?si=htyicOmQQcW72hZPFHnWvw |
| Catalog Designation | WoO 155 no. 8 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Range: | C#4 - D5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D Major (Search) |
| Premiered By | (Search) |
| Notes | Commissioned by publisher George Thomson; Poet was a Cambridge history professor (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Voice, piano, violin, violoncello (Search) |
| Contributor | AL (Search) |