Compositions with Walt Whitman as librettist

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Creators Key Opus Composed Instrumentation Period/style Type Listen Code
Drum Taps (Cantata for men's voices and instruments) Tui St. George Tucker, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1973 male chorus, 3 clarinets, percussion, cello, double bass and piano Modern Secular choruses
A Sea Symphony (Symphony No.1) Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1903 soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Symphonies
Your Journey From Me, for Voice and Piano Jeff Manookian, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1986 voice and piano Modern Songs
After the Dazzle of Day Lyle K. Neff, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1978 voice and piano Modern Songs
Dirge for Two Veterans, Op. 13 (Dirge for Two Veterans. Poem for Recitation by Walt Whitman, with Melodramatic Music for the Pianoforte Composed by Frederic Louis Ritter) Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
C major Op.13 1880 voice and piano Romantic Melodramas, Dirges
O Captain! My Captain!, Op. 19 Edgar Stillman Kelley, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
C major Op.19 mixed chorus and piano Romantic Secular choruses
Weave in, My Hardy Life Frank V. Van der Stucken, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
B flat major mixed chorus Romantic Secular choruses
We Two Together, Schleifer 223 (Shine! Shine!) William Wallace Gilchrist, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
C major Schleifer 223 mixed chorus and piano Romantic Secular choruses
Toward the Unknown Region Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1906 mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Secular cantatas
3 Poems By Walt Whitman Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1925 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Elegiac Ode Charles Villiers Stanford, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
D minor Op.21 1884 soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Elegies, Odes
In Memoriam (A Cycle of Songs) James Hotchkiss Rogers, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
Robert Louis Stevenson, librettist
Edwin Arnold, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Inscriptions Vivian Fine, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1986 2 voices and piano Modern Songs
By the bivonac’s fitful flame Hamilton Harty, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
The Last Invocation Frank Bridge, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
H.136 1918 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
2 Songs Marshall Kernochan, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Give me the splendid silent sun Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Way of the River Robert G. Patterson, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
James Joyce, librettist
Rudyard Kipling, librettist
William Wordsworth, librettist
Sara Teasdale, librettist
GRM-01036 2011 soprano, bass clarinet, violin and piano Modern Songs
My Captain Cyril Scott, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
G major (medium voice); F major Op.38 voice and piano Romantic Songs
Lilac-Time Cyril Scott, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
C major (medium voice); unknown key (high voice) voice and piano Romantic Songs
Invocation Emerson Whithorne, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Flight of the Eagle Homer Albert Norris, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
soprano, tenor, baritone and piano Romantic Secular cantatas
Vom ewigen Leben (Nach Gedichten von Walt Whitman) Franz Schreker, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1923 soprano and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Love Duet Andrew Violette, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1996 soprano, tenor and piano Modern Duets, Songs
American Song Set Andrew Violette, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
Edgar Allan Poe, librettist
Mark Twain, librettist
Robert Frost, librettist
Edwin Arlington Robinson, librettist
Emily Dickinson, librettist
1996 voice and piano Modern Songs
An Echo from the Shore Gary Bachlund, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
2002 soprano, oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord Modern Songs
9 English Songs (For Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano and Piano) Paul Hindemith, composer
Charles Wolfe, librettist
Thomas Moore, librettist
Percy Bysshe Shelley, librettist
Samuel Lover, librettist
Francis Thompson, librettist
William Blake, librettist
Walt Whitman, librettist
Robert Herrick, librettist
William Oldys, librettist
1942 voice and piano Modern Songs
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Als Flieder jüngst mir im Garten blüht'
(A Requiem "For those we love"
Ein Requiem "Denen, die wir lieben")
Paul Hindemith, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1946 mezzosoprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra Modern Requiems
Sea-Drift (Im meerestreiben) Frederick Delius, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
RT II/3 1903 baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra Romantic Secular choruses
Eine lichte Mitternacht (Männerchöre: Eine lichte Mitternacht) Paul Hindemith, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1929 male chorus Modern Secular choruses
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea Tamás Beischer-Matyó, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
C major 2013 mezzosoprano, viola and cello Modern Songs
3 Hymnen (Drei Hymnen von Walt Whitman für Bariton und Klavier) Paul Hindemith, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
Op.14 1919 voice and piano Modern Hymns
Ode to Death Gustav Holst, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
A minor H.144 1919 mixed chorus and orchestra Early 20th century Odes
2 Songs (Two Songs to Words by Walt Whitman) Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
Op.33 voice and piano Romantic Songs
A Dirge for Two Veterans Gustav Holst, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
H.121 1914 male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 tubas and 2 percussions
male chorus, 3 cornets, trombone, tuba and 2 percussions
male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 cellos and 2 percussions
male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 double basses and 2 percussions
male chorus, 3 cornets, cello, double bass and 2 percussions
Early 20th century Dirges
Full Moon in the West Carlotta Ferrari, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
2019 mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
Oh me! Oh life! Álvaro Gallegos, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
2019 voice and piano Modern Songs
Ethiopia Saluting the Colours Charles Wood, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
Ethiopia Saluting The Colors Harry Thacker Burleigh, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Come Lovely and Soothing Death David Lesniaski, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
mixed chorus Modern Secular choruses
Symphony No. 1 (Versuch eines Requiems) Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer
Walt Whitman, librettist
1955 alto and orchestra Modern Symphonies


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