- General information
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Composition date :
1965 - 06 apr 1965
- Duration : 22 mn
- Publisher : Faber Music
- Dedication : 'For Dieter: the past and the future'
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Libretto (details, author) :
Textes extraits des Songs of Experience, Auguries of Innocence et Proverbs of Hell de Peter Pears
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Composition date :
1965 - 06 apr 1965
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [Baritone and piano]
Detailed formation
- solo baritone, piano
Premiere information
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Date :
24 June 1965
Location :Aldeburgh Festival
Performers :Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau et Benjamin Britten.
Table of contents
- Proverb I London
- Proverb II The Chimney-Sweeper
- Proverb III A Poison Tree
- Proverb IV The Tyger
- Proverb V The Fly
- Proverb VI Ah! Sun-flower!
- Proverb VII Every Night and everty Morn