Schwarze Rosen

Black Roses

Svarta Rosor

DCW 108
RT V/22
DCE 19

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: Ernst Josephson
Translator: Jelka Rosen

Setting of Ernst Josephson's poem 'Svarta Rosor', first two stanzas only. Notable as Delius's only setting of a text originally in Swedish.

Composition: 1901.

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'Sag, warum bist du so traurig heut?'
'Tell me, why are you so sad today?'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Copy

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

In a copyist's hand, signed by Delius. German text with Swedish added in red, incorporating an earlier version of the last verse. Also, an incomplete copy with Swedish words, title only added by Jelka Delius.

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

British Library source record

Autograph score

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

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

British Library source record

Published score

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

Tischer & Jagenberg, Cologne 1915.

Published as number four of Fünf Gesänge, German and English text, the former by Jelka Delius, the latter by Delius himself. Transferred to Oxford University Press in 1930 and reprinted by them in A Book of Songs (1969).

Collected Edition

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

Oxford University Press, London 1987.

Included in vol. 19 of the Collected Edition: Nineteen Songs.

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