• General information
  • Composition date: 1940 - 1940
    
  • Duration: 15 mn 30 s
  • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
  • Opus: 22
  • Dedication: 'To Peter'
  • Libretto (details, author):

    Michel-Ange : Sonnets XVI, XXXI, XXX, LV, XXXVIII, XXXII et XXIV

• Type
  • Vocal music and instrument(s) [Tenor and piano]

Premiere information

• Date: 23 September 1942
  Location:

  Londres, Wigmore Hall

  
  Performers:

  Peter Pears et Benjamin Britten.