by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Language: English
... Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! ...
Composition:
- Set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Landscape", 1949-1952, first performed 1953, stanza 6 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Symphony no. 7 - Sinfonia Antartica, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), "Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
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