Arthur George Farwell

(1877-1952)

Arthur George Farwell, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in St. Paul on the 23th April 1877, the same year of the composers Aroca y Ortega, Aubert, Beach, Bortkiewicz, Brediceanu, Camussi, Castillo, Chesnokov, Cools, Cuvillier, Dohnányi, Dunhill, Dupuis, Gedike, Hess, Huré, Jelmoli, Krstic, Ladmirault, Marsick, Medins, Mojsisovics(-Mojsvár), Nowowiejski, Radoux-Rogier, Smith, Stojanovic. He died in New York on the 20th Jenuary 1952

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

OPERE

"The Evergreen Tree" has been represented in 1917

"Grail Song" was performed in 1925

"Cartoon, or Once upon a time recently" has been represented in 1948

LIEDER

"I never saw a moor", op. 105 n. 5, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The level bee", op. 105 n. 10, published in 1940, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Summer's Armies", op. 105 n. 9, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The little tippler" (I taste a liquor never brewed), op. 105 n. 6, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Aristocracy", op. 105 n. 7, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Papa above", op. 108 n. 9, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The butterfly", op. 108 n. 2, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"How the sun rose" (I'll tell you how the sun rose), op. 105 n. 1, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The Sabbath", op. 105 n. 3, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"On this wondrous sea", op. 107 n. 3, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"I had no time to hate", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Blazing in gold", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Tie the strings to my life", op. 107 n. 2, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The wild flower's song", published in 1920, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"The Sea said "Come" (The Sea said "Come" to the Brook), op. 108 n. 5, published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Dropped into the Ether Acre", op. 108 n. 10, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"I'm nobody! Who are you?" (I'm nobody! Who are you), op. 108 n. 8, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The grass so little has to do", op. 112 n. 2, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The Tyger" (Tiger! Tiger! burning bright), text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Summer shower" (A drop fell on the apple tree), op. 73 n. 1, published in 1928, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Mine" (Mine by the right of the white election), op. 73 n. 2, published in 1928, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Heart, we will forget him", op. 108 n. 1, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The sea of sunset" (This is the land the sunset washes), published in 1928, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"We should not mind so small a flower", op. 108 n. 6, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Ample make this bed", op. 108 n. 7, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"On this long storm", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Build thee more stately mansions" (This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign), published in 1901, text of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

"Drücke mich an deine Brust", published in 1902, text of Johanna Ambrosius (1854-1939)

"Meeting", published in 1902, text of Arthur Farwell (1872-1952)

"Afternoon on a hill", published in 1945, text of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

"On a faded violet" (The odour from the flower is gone), op. 43 n. 2, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Safe in their alabaster chambers", op. 105 n. 2, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"And I'm a rose!", op. 108 n. 4, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Presentiment", op. 105 n. 12, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"I shall know why", op. 66 n. 1, published in 1926, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Resurgam", op. 66 n. 2, published in 1926, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Mont Sainte-Victoire" (1897), oil on canvas, 81 x 100.5 cm, of the painter Paul Cézanne, contemporary of Farwell (Hermitage, St Petersburg)

Arthur George Farwell

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