Under the wide and starry sky

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie;
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

Here may the winds about me blow,
Here the sea may come and go
Here lies peace  forevermo'
And the heart for aye shall be still.

This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

Translation(s): GER ITA

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Authorship

• by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887 [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Requiem", published <<1952. [TTBB chorus a cappella] [
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• by Kathleen Billingham , "Requiem", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Two songs [
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• by Keith Warren Bissell (b. 1912), "Requiem", published 1967 [SSA chorus a cappella or piano], note: piano version is from 1971 [
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• by Lawrance Arthur Collingwood (1887 - 1982), "Requiem", published 1928. [SATB chorus or TTBB chorus a cappella] [
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• by Harold Craxton , "A requiem", published 1914. [voice and piano] [
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• by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Requiem", published 1931 [voice and piano], from the collection Twenty-one songs [
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• by Paul N. Edmonds (b. 1873), "Requiem", published 1920. [SSA chorus and piano] [
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• by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Requiem" [medium voice and piano] [
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• by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Requiem", published 1907. [voice and piano] [
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• by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993), "Requiem", published 1950. [SSA chorus a cappella] [
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• by Edmund Grinnell , "Requiem", published <<1940. [voice and piano] [
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• by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Requiem", op. 15 no. 2, published 1904 [voice and piano], from Six Songs from "Underwoods", no. 2. [
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• by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Requiem", published 1935. [
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• by Martin Kalmanoff (1920 - 2007), "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1960. [TTBB chorus and piano] [
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• by Richard Kountz (1896 - 1950), "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1949. [unaccompanied voice or TTBB chorus a cappella] [
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• by Cyril Bertram Lander , "Requiem" [high voice and piano], from Flores de mi primavera [
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• by Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus , "Requiem", published 1923. [voice and piano] [
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• by Ben Moore (b. 1960), "Requiem" [voice and piano], from Eight Songs, no. 2. [
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• by T. More , "Requiem", published <<1940. [
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• by Peter Russell Naylor (b. 1933), "Requiem" [tenor and piano] [
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• by Clara Osmond , "Requiem", published <<1940. [
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• by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Requiem", published 1903 [voice and piano], from Two songs [
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• by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Requiem" [voice and piano] [
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• by Karol Rathaus (1895 - 1954), "Requiem", published <<1955. [SATB chorus and piano] [
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• by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Requiem", published 1919, stanzas 1,3 [voice and piano], from In Memoriam, no. 2, New York, G. Schirmer [
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• by Ned Rorem (b. 1923), "Requiem", published 1950. [medium voice and piano] [
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• by Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Requiem", published 1917 [high voice or medium voice and piano], London : Elkin [
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• by William Shanks , "Requiem", published 1927. [voice and piano] [
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• by Oley Speaks (1874 - 1948), "Requiem", published <<1940. [voice and piano] [
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• by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "Requiem", stanzas 1,3 [voice and piano], Manchester, Forsyth Publications [
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• by Ronald Stevenson (b. 1928), "Requiem", 1964 [medium voice and piano], from Four Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [
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• by E. Roy Thompson , "Requiem", published 1920. [voice and piano] [
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• by Ernest Whyte (1858 - 1922), "Requiem", op. 71 no. 1. [
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• by Raymond Huntington Woodman (1861 - 1943), "Requiem", published 1932 [voice and piano], in Music of Many Lands and Peoples [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Requiem", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , title 1: "Grabschrift", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Requiem

Sia sotto un cielo vasto e stellato
Scavata la tomba, e sepolto stia là.
Sereno io muoio e sereno ho vissuto
Ed ora qui giaccio per mia volontà.

I venti accarezzano colui che qui giace,
Ritornano e vanno le onde del mare
Qui sempre sovrana regna la pace
Per sempre tranquillo rimane il mio cuore.

E sia, sulla mia tomba, questa frase incisa:
"Per suo desiderio  egli ora qui riposa,
a casa è il marinaio che ha viaggiato per mare,
a casa torna, dal colle, il cacciatore."

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• Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2005 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
  
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• a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887 GER
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Kathleen Billingham, Keith Warren Bissell, Lawrance Arthur Collingwood, Harold Craxton, Walford Davies, Sir, Paul N. Edmonds, Blair Fairchild, Arthur Foote, Shena Eleanor Fraser, Edmund Grinnell, Sidney Homer, Charles Edward Ives, Martin Kalmanoff, Richard Kountz, Cyril Bertram Lander, Cecilia Loftus, Ben Moore, T. More, Peter Russell Naylor, Clara Osmond, Graham Peel, Humphrey Procter-Gregg, Karol Rathaus, James Hotchkiss Rogers, Ned Rorem, Cyril Meir Scott, William Shanks, Oley Speaks, Douglas Steele, Ronald Stevenson, E. Roy Thompson, Ernest Whyte, Raymond Huntington Woodman. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2005-01-19.
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