Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by F. Rzewski

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Frederic Rzewski (1938 - 2021)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Dear Diary

no. 1. Stuporman (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 2. Names (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 3. No Good (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 4. Samson (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 5. Thanks (Text: Frederic Rzewski)

Ode to the Deserter

no. 1. I Will Not Serve! (Text: James Joyce)
no. 2. Non Serviam (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. Aan een moeder
no. 5. Ne servir plus! ENG
no. 8. Down by the Riverside (Text: Volkslieder )

The Road: a novel for solo piano

no. 34. Una tragedia doméstica (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 40. Working It Out (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 42. The Prodigal Parents (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
no. 46. Night Thought (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 56a. Epilogue: Death (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
no. 60. Uphill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 61. Stop the War! (Text: Frederic Rzewski) FRE
no. 62. The Babble (Text: Frederic Rzewski) SPA

Three songs

Lullaby: God to a hungry child (Text: Langston Hughes)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Aan een moeder (in Ode to the Deserter)
De profundis (Text: Oscar Wilde)
Down by the Riverside (in Ode to the Deserter) (Text: Volkslieder )
Epilogue: Death (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
I Will Not Serve! (in Ode to the Deserter) (Text: James Joyce)
Jefferson (Text: Thomas Jefferson)
Logique (Text: Paul Verlaine)
Lullaby: God to a hungry child (in Three songs) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Names (in Dear Diary) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Nanosonata #50 (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Ne servir plus! (in Ode to the Deserter) ENG
Night Thought (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
No Good (in Dear Diary) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Non Serviam (in Ode to the Deserter) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Samson (in Dear Diary) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Stop the Testing! (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Stop the War! (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Frederic Rzewski) FRE
Stuporman (in Dear Diary) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Thanks (in Dear Diary) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
The Babble (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Frederic Rzewski) SPA
The Love of Money
The Prodigal Parents (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
To His Coy Mistress (Text: Andrew Marvell)
Two Rilke Songs (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) [x]
Una tragedia doméstica (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Frederic Rzewski)
Uphill (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Working It Out (in The Road: a novel for solo piano) (Text: Anonymous) ENG

Last update: 2025-06-16 02:06:23