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Text Authorship:

• by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), appears in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 3, first published 1917 [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 Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975), "The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds", 1957 [ voice and string quartet ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lukas Foss (b. 1922), "The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds", 1978, copyright © 1980 [ soprano, piano, flute, 2 tapes, and percussion ], from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 3, New York, Pembroke [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds", 1947, published 1951, from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louise Juliette Talma (1906 - 1996), "The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds", 1979 [ tenor or soprano, oboe, flute or violin, and piano ], from 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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