• General information
  • Composition date: 1947 - 12 sep 1947
    
  • Duration: 7 mn
  • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
  • Opus: 40
  • Dedication: 'The Canticle was written for the Dick Sheppard Memorial Concert on 1 November 1947'
  • Libretto (details, author):

    Francis Quarles

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

Premiere information

• Date: 1 November 1947
  Location:

  Dick Sheppard Memorial Concert

  
  Performers:

  Peter Pears et Benjamin Britten