Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC864 SONG (AFTER SAPPHO) [MISSING]

For voice and piano

Period of composition: May - Jun 1939

Date notes

Britten and Auden shared correspondence about this song between May-Jun 1939. Britten had originally sent Auden a melody and asked for a text to fit it. The music has been lost, but the text survived and is reproduced in Letters from a life, volume 2, pp. 658-9.

Genre: Solo vocal

With piano

Text: W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

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