O schneller mein Ross

Plus vite mon cheval

O faster my horse

DCW 88
RT V/7
DCE 18a

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: Emanuel Geibel
Dedicatee: 'Madame la Princesse de Cystria'

Setting of the first three quatrains of Emanuel Geibel, ‘Lieder als Intermezzo’, XXXVIII. Curiously, the song has no subsequent publication history after its first appearance in French translation in 1896 until inclusion in the Collected Edition (1987). Thomas Beecham suggested that the song had been performed in several countries, but was withdrawn from circulation by the composer for reasons unknown (see RL, 122).

Composition: 1888.

Text incipit: 'O schneller mein Ross, mit Hast mit Hast!'
'Plus vite, plus vite, mon cheval!'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Autograph score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy, complete]

This manuscript contains two relevant items: i) the autograph with German words, signed 'Fritz Delius' and dated '1888', with French translation interlined in red ink in another hand; ii) also autograph, a copy with French words and German words added, headed 'Plus vite, plus vite, mon cheval' and signed 'Fritz Delius'. This manuscript was the publisher's Stichvorlage.

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

British Library source record

Copy

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, score, fair copy, complete]

Manuscript in a copyists' hand, signed [later] by the composer 'Frederick Delius'.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/1/36. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

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

L. Grus, Paris 1896.

Published as no. 4 of 5 Chansons ... Musique de Fritz Delius.

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Robert Threlfall and Allen Percival

Stainer & Bell, London 1987.

Incorporated into vol. 18a of the Collected Edition: Twenty-two Songs with Piano.

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