The lost child : orchestral version / Otto Dresel ; edited by David Francis Urrows ; text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Dresel, Otto, 1826-1890, composer, arranger of music.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, author.

Contributor:

Urrows, David Francis, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in American music ; 45 (Supplement)

Recent researches in American music, 2577-4573 ; 45 supplement

Standardized Title:

Lost child; arranged

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Musical settings.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

Songs (High voice) with orchestra--Scores.

Songs (High voice) with orchestra.

Genre:

Songs.

Musical settings.

Arrangements (Music)

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score, x, 24,pages).

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2018.

Summary:

"The Lost Child" is a reflective, elegiac concert aria that connects four important figures from three quite separate disciplines--the Swiss-American "natural scientist" Louis Agassiz (1807-73), the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), the German-American composer Otto Dresel (1826-90), and the English diva and composer Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931). Its collaborative creation was initiated by Longfellow, who wrote the poem as a birthday tribute to his friend Agassiz. He recruited Dresel, then regarded as Boston's leading composer and pianist, to set the poem to music, perhaps because Dresel was himself a close friend of Agassiz. Rogers later performed The Lost Child at its premiere-a memorial concert for Agassiz arranged by the Harvard Musical Association-in 1874. Dresel originally set the work for piano and voice, but he later revised it for voice and orchestra. The piano-vocal setting is available in Dresel's Collected Vocal Music (Recent Researches in American Music, vol. 45); this supplement presents the orchestral version for the first time in a modern edition. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Origins of the Lost child

Public performance

Orchestration and Musical style

Notes

Lost child

Critical report

Sources

Editorial method

Critical notes.

Notes:

Concert aria, originally for soprano voice and piano; orchestrated by composer.

Includes introduction and critical report.

Edited from the autograph manuscript, in the editor's personal collection, prepared for the performance of January 19, 1874.

Includes bibliographical references (page x).

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 23, 2018).

Contains:

Container of: Dresel, Otto, 1826-1890. Lost child.

OCLC:

1074409290

Publisher Number:

A045S A-R Editions, Inc. (score)