© by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Was I sleeping, while the others...
Language: English
Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? [ ... ]
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- by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), no title, appears in Waiting for Godot, Act II, first published 1953, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time 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 Jeffrey Cohen (b. 1957), "Was I sleeping ...?", c1972 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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