© by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the...
Language: English
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone [ ... ]
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1 Britten: "bands"
2 Britten: "could"
Authorship:
- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), no title, appears in The Ascent of F6, first published 1936, 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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Funeral Blues", 1937, published 1980 [ voice and piano ], from Cabaret Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wayne L. Davies (b. 1975), "Stop all the clocks" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Stop all the clocks" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Betty Roe (b. 1930), "Stop all the clocks", published 1980 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (b. 1923), "Stop all the clocks", published 1965 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (b. 1923), "Stop all the clocks", published 1965 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Poems of Love and the Rain, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Wallace Southam , "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone", published 1966 [ voice and piano ], from Poetry Set in Jazz [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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