© by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do...
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! [ ... ]
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- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "On hearing a Symphony of Beethoven", appears in The Buck in the Snow, first published 1928, 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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Sweet sounds, o beautiful music", 1959 [voice, viola, and piano], from Three Sonnets for Voice, Viola and Piano, no. 1. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Lloyd Alvin Pfautsch (b. 1921), "On hearing a Symphony of Beethoven", published 1966. [soprano and SSA chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ivana M. Themmen , "On hearing a Symphony of Beethoven" [soprano and orchestra], from Shelter this candle from the wind [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Beim Anhören einer Beethoven Symphonie", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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