Sir Frederic Cowen

(1852-1935)

"Impression, Sunrise" (1872), oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm, of the painter Claude Monet, contemporary of Cowen (Musee Marmottan, Paris)

The musician Sir Frederic Cowen was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Kingston on the 29th Jenuary 1852, the same year of the composers Bayer, Borkowski, Clarus, Corder, Coronaro, Gobatti, Grünfeld, Hillemacher, Housely, Huber, Kaan (Kaan-Albest), Laurens, Marzo, Mascheroni, Mengewein, Neitzel, Oswald, Pugno, Raida, Stanford. He died in Londra on the 6th October 1935

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

Sir Frederic Cowen

OPERE

"Garibaldi, or The Rival Patriots" was performed in 1860

"One Too Many" was performed on the 24th of June 1874 in Londra (St. George's Hall)

"Pauline" was performed on the 22nd of November 1876 in Londra (Lyceum Theatre)

"Thorgrim" was performed in Londra on the 22nd of April 1890 (Drury Lane)

"Signa" was performed on the 12nd of November 1893 in Milano (Teatro dal Verme)

"Signa" was performed in Londra on the 30th of June 1894 (Covent Garden)

"Harold, or The Norman Conquest" was performed in Londra on the 8th of June 1895 (Covent Garden)

LIEDER

"Love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine?" (Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine), published in 1892, text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

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