The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold

Die Nachtigall spielt auf goldener Leier

DCW 109
RT V/25
DCE 19

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: William Ernest Henley

Setting of lines from Henley's Life and Death (Echoes), XVIII (1876).

Composition: 1910.

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'The nightingale has a lyre of gold'
'Die Nachtigall spielt auf goldener Leier'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Autograph draft

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

Ink draft in Delius's autograph, much overworking in pencil. Title and German translation 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, fair copy, complete]

Ink autograph score, English words only.

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 no. 2 of Fünf Gesänge, English and German text (German words probably by Jelka Delius). Transferred to Oxford University Press subsequently.

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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