Whither Must I Wander?

Song TitleWhither Must I Wander? (Search)
Composer(s):Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author(s):Robert Louis Stevenson
Keyword(s) & Features: Birds; Childhood; Cold; Firelight; Flowers; Glittering; Hearts; Home; Houses; Leaving; Memories; Nature; Rain; Red; Songs; Spring; Traveling; Wandering; Welcome; Wind; Winter
First LineHome no more home to me, whither must I wander? (Search)
Year of composition 1901 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15305
Larger WorkSongs of Travel (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsNeo-Romanticism; Modernism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/3d/IMSLP96383-PMLP183796-Vaughan_Williams_-_Songs_of_Travel.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/1y1zxoRdmXQUuLkQE0q61k
Catalog DesignationSongs of Travel, no. 7 (Search)
Range: Bb3 - Eb5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Premiered ByWalter Creighton, baritone and Hamilton Harty, piano (Search)
NotesNumbers 1-8 were premiered in December 1904. The ninth song was rediscovered in Vaughan Williams' papers after his death. The complete cycle was not performed until 1960. (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/songs-of-travel-sheet-music/19978131 (Search)
Orchestra and voice?Yes (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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