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BTC977 PURCELL: MAD BESS, Z 370 [HP SIX SONGS/1]

For high or medium voice and piano
Composition date: pre 17 Nov 1945
Genre: Purcell realization
Text: Anon.
Duration: 5'
Dedication: 'For Joan Cross'

Joan Cross (1900-1983), English operatic soprano, creator of the role of Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, op. 33.

Notes

From Orpheus Britannicus.

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