Charles Wakefield Cadman

(1881-1946)

Charles Wakefield Cadman, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Johnstown on the 24th December 1881, the same year of the composers Alaleona, Barlow, Bartók, Bisquertt, Blumer, Dresda, Eggen, Enescu, Gilse, Kazuro, Le Flem, Napoli, Rogowski, Sandby, Savine, Schneider-Trnavský, Schryock, Valente. He died in Los Angeles on the 30th December 1946

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

OPERE

"The Land of the Misty Water" was performed in 1912

"Shanewis or The Robin Woman" was performed on the 23rd of March 1918 in New York (Metropolitan Opera)

"The Sunset Trail" was performed on the 5th of December 1922 in Denver

"The Garden of Mystery" was performed in New York on the 20th of March 1925

"The Ghost of Lollypop Bay" was performed in 1926

"Lelawala" has been represented in 1926

"A Witch of Salem" was performed in Chicago on the 8th of December 1926

"The Belle of Havana" has been represented in 1928

"South in Sonora" has been represented in 1932

"Ramala" was performed in (?)

LIEDER

"The White Dawn is Stealing", op. 45 n. 2, published in 1909, text of Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

"Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute", op. 45 n. 3, published in 1909, text of Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

"The Moon Drops Low", op. 45 n. 4, published in 1909, text of Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

"From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water", op. 45 n. 1, published in 1909, text of Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

"A Moonlight Song", op. 42 n. 2, published in 1908, text of John Proctor Mills

"Du bist wie eine Blume", op. 41 n. 1, text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

"Contes barbares" (1902), oil on canvas, 130 x 89 cm, of the painter Paul Gauguin, contemporary of Cadman (Museum Folkwang, Essen)

Charles Wakefield Cadman

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