Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

Go Not, Happy Day (Weil noch Sonnenstrahl) (S.335)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Go Not, Happy Day (Weil noch Sonnenstrahl) (S.335)
Foreign language / English title
Go Not, Happy Day (Weil noch Sonnenstrahl) (S.335)
Year of composition
1879

Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
Ms. (or T.) - pf.
Duration
3 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
TENNYSON, Lord Alfred
Language
English / German
Publisher / Source
Edition Kegan Paul, London 1880
Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1922, F.L. VII 88
Recordings
EMI Classics CDC 5550472, 1994 - Thomas Hampson (Bar.), Geoffrey Parsons (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Based on the Poem by Alfred Tennyson

German translation by L. Kirschbaum