12 lieder verschiedener völker: No. 6 “A health to the brave”, WoO 157/6

Catalogue title: 12 Songs of Various Nationalities.

Scoring: voice, mixed chorus (STB), violin, cello, piano (Nos.1, 9, 11) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.2, 8, 10, 12) 2 sopranos, bass, violin,...Read more

Catalogue title: 12 Songs of Various Nationalities.

Scoring: voice, mixed chorus (STB), violin, cello, piano (Nos.1, 9, 11) voice, violin, cello, piano (Nos.2, 8, 10, 12) 2 sopranos, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.3, 4) soprano, tenor, bass, violin, cello, piano (Nos.5, 7) 2 voices, violin, cello, piano (No.6).

Composed: 1815-20.

Individual item 6 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.

Item in the set: A Health to the Brave. Alla marcia (F major).

Sung text (original language):
John
Dovaston
A health to the brave, in fields afar
sweet Freedom’s foes assailing;
And high the choral burden bear,
their names with honours hailing.
What meed awaits, the fallen brave?
A nation’s tears to dew them,
and bars the blooming flowers to
weave,
and virgin hands to strew them.
But what their meed to whom returns
in triumph’s car is granted?
Beside their comrade’s laurel’d urn,
to see the olive planted.
To hear the good, the great, the fair,
rich notes of rapture pealing.
That high the choral burden bear,
their names with honours hailing.

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