LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,482)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

Orpheus behind the wire

Song Cycle by Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012)

1. What was Hell like?
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
What was hell like?
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Bond (b. 1934), copyright ©

Go to the general single-text view

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

2. The point to be noted
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
It was not permitted
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Bond (b. 1934), copyright ©

Go to the general single-text view

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

3. You who survived
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
You who survived the time of the murderers
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Bond (b. 1934), copyright ©

Go to the general single-text view

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

4. It was changed
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Old now/ More strings on this lyre than hairs on my head
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Bond (b. 1934), copyright ©

Go to the general single-text view

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

5. Orpheus
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Pressed by the weight of the world
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Bond (b. 1934), copyright ©

Go to the general single-text view

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.
Total word count: 503
Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris