Let Springtime come, then

Lad Våren komme

Den Lenz lass kommen

DCW 65
RT III/4
DCE 15a/supp. vol. 5

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Setting of J.P. Jacobsen's poem 'Lad Våren komme'. Like the other songs in the collection, this was originally a setting of the Danish words for voice and piano. The orchestral version, with English words, which forms part of Seven Danish Songs, dates from 1897.

Contained in:

Seven Danish Songs

Composition: Between 1890 and 1897.

Lad Våren komme (Pianoforte version)

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'Lad Våren komme mens den vil'

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Sources

Autograph score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, piano score, complete]

This manuscript contains i) an English translation of the Danish text in Jelka's hand ii) Delius's autograph score of the voice and piano setting, in Danish with added German translation ii) two ink copies, in English with German added above.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/6. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Stichvorlage

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, piano score, engraver's copy, complete]

In Jelka's hand and entitled 'Frühlingslied', the Stichvorlage of the song for inclusion in Five Songs, prepared for publishers Tischer & Jagenberg.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/4/5. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

[Classification: notated music, print, piano score, first edition, complete]

Tischer & Jagenberg, Köln 1915.

Included in Fünf Gesänge, piano version, German and English text, as 'Frühlingslied'.

Collected Edition

[Classification: notated music, print, piano score, later edition, complete]

Boosey & Hawkes, London 1998.

Published in Early Versions of Songs to Scandinavian Texts, DCE supp. vol. 5.

Orchestral setting

Date: 1897.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra : 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg., 4 cor., timp., str.

Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'Let springtime come then, when it may'

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Performances

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