List! For the Breeze (Goss, John)
Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
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Complete Song
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Publisher Info.:
The Orpheus (New Series), No.353.
London: Novello & Co., 1902.
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General Information
| Work Title | List! For the Breeze |
|---|---|
| Alternative Title |
| Composer | Goss, John |
|---|---|
| Key | F major |
| First Performance | 1824 or earlier. |
| Librettist | John Bowring (1792-1872) appears to have written these words, excerpted from his free translation of a Spanish poem, "Fertiliza tu vega". (Bowring called it, "She Comes to Gather Flowers.") The 1902 Novello score does not cite a librettist, stating merely, "Words from the Spanish." Bowring's text, together with the anonymous original, appeared in The London Magazine of June 1823 (pp. 605-606). Goss's composition was first performed no later than February 1824. |
| Language | English |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | ATTB |
Misc. Comments
List ! for the breeze on wing serene
Through the light foliage sails ;
Hidden amidst the forest green
Warble the nightingales, . . .
Paul Hillier's modern edition is for SATB in G major.
(English Romantic Partsongs. London: Oxford (1986).)
