• 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