Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite (Anonymous, set by (Margaret Ruthven Lang)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite

Language: English after the Aeolic Greek

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Based on

a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite", op. 24 (Three arias for voice and orchestra) no. 1, first performed 1895 [contralto and orchestra]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Helen Maude Francesca Bantock, née von Schweitzer (1868 - 1961) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation] FRE GER GER GER ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walter Jens (b. 1923) , copyright © [an adaptation] ENG FRE ; composed by Aribert Reimann.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Carl von Blankensee ENG FRE ; composed by Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rudolf Bach (1901 - 1957) , copyright © ENG ENG FRE ; composed by Hermann Reutter.

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