William Edmondstoune Duncan

(1866-1920)

"A Carnival Evening" (1886), oil on canvas, 106.9 x 89.3 cm, of the painter Henri Rousseau, contemporary of Duncan (Museum of Art, Philadelphia)

The musician William Edmondstoune Duncan was born in Sale on the 22nd April 1866, the same year of the composers Abbiate, Baussnern, Berutti, Busoni, Cilea, Clutsam, Cole, Daneau, Doret, Drysdale, Döbber, Fedeli, Felix, Hollaender, Kalinnikov, Kaskel, Korn, Lincke, Lucas, Rebikov, Röhr, Satie, Scharrer, Strauss. He died in Sale on the 26th June 1920

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William Edmondstoune Duncan

OPERE

"Perseus" has been represented in 1892

LIEDER

"The year's at the spring", published in 1919, text of Robert Browning (1812-1889)

"Memory" (Memory, hither come), published in 1919, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"No more a-roving" (So we'll go no more a-roving), published in 1918, text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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