Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC937 LA NOEL PASSEE (THE ORPHAN AND KING HENRY) [FSA 2/1, FRANCE]

For high or medium voice and piano
Composition date: Dec 1942
Genre: Folk song
Text: Traditional (set in French)
Duration: 2'
Dedication: 'To my young friends, Arnold and Humphrey Gyde'

Sons of the singer Sophie Wyss. Dedicatees of the published volume.

Notes

This song was arranged for voice and string orchestra in ca. Dec 1953.

Britten conceived Volume 2 of his folksongs as a set and, unusually, added a date to the composition draft.

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