Michael (Dewar) Head

(1900-1976)

"The Blue Vase" (1920), oil on canvas, 49.5 x 52 cm, of the painter Giorgio Morandi, contemporary of Head (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf)

The musician Michael (Dewar) Head was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Eastbourne on the 28th Jenuary 1900, the same year of the composers Aav, Antheil, Barraud, Berezowsky, Bernard, Blum, Burkhard, Bush, Copland, Dunayevsky, Ermatinger, Ferroud, Godron, Halffter (Escriche), Haug, Ikonomov, Krenek, Mosolov, Oboussier, Pimsleur, Raymond, Reutter, Salmhofer, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Shekhter, Taktakishvili. He died in Cape Town on the 24th August 1976

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

Michael (Dewar) Head

OPERE

"The Bachelor Mouse" has been represented in 1954

"Key Money" has been represented in 1966

LIEDER

"Lone dog", text of Irene Rutherford McLeod (1891-?)

"The Fairies' Dance", text of Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916)

"Love's Lament", text of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"Nocturne", published in 1918, text of Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917)

"A dog's life", text of Cicely Fox Smith (-1954)

"The ships of Arcady", published in 1918, text of Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917)

"Lavender Pond", text of Cicely Fox Smith (-1954)

"O let no star compare with thee", text of Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

"Tewkesbury Road", text of John Masefield (1878-1967)

"A piper", text of Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958)

"The Twins", text of Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)

"Money, O!", text of William Henry Davies (1871-1940)

"Oh to be in England", text of Robert Browning (1812-1889)

"A green cornfield", text of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"When I think upon the maidens", published in 1920, text of Philip Ashbrooke

"A blackbird singing", published in 1918, text of Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917)

"The Sea Gypsy", text of Richard Hovey (1864-1900)

"The plague of love", text of William Whitehead (1715-1785)

"Beloved", published in 1918, text of Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917)

"Love not me for comely grace", Anonymous

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