Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC978 PURCELL: MUSIC FOR A WHILE, Z 583/2 [HP SEVEN SONGS/4]

For high or medium voice and piano

Composition date: pre 17 Nov 1945

Genre: Purcell realization

Text: John Dryden

From Oedipus.

Duration: 3'

Dedication: 'For Joan Cross'

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

From Orpheus Britannicus.

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