by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation © by Aurobindo Bose (flourished 1950-1960)
The day’s first sun had asked
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
The day’s first sun had asked
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Text Authorship:
- by Aurobindo Bose (flourished 1950-1960), appears in Wings of Death: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, in 4. Last Poems (Sesh Lekhā), no. 13, London, John Murray, first published 1960, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "The day’s first sun had asked", op. 9 no. 6 (1970/1) [ soprano and orchestra ], from Wings of Death, no. 6
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