26 Walisische Lieder: No. 9 “To the Aeolian Harp”, WoO 155/9

Catalogue title: 26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155.

Scoring: 1-2 voice(s), violin, cello, piano (or harp).

Composed: 1810-15.

Individual item 9 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set....Read more

Catalogue title: 26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155.

Scoring: 1-2 voice(s), violin, cello, piano (or harp).

Composed: 1810-15.

Individual item 9 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.

Item in the set: To the Aeolian Harp. Andante espressivo (E ♭ major).

Sung text (original language):
Harp of the winds! In airy measure
Thy strings when viewless fingers
move,
Unfolding all thy tuneful treasure,
Thy cadence wild I dearly love.

REFRAIN:
The sounds, all earthly sounds
excelling,
Our wand’ring thoughts to heav’n
recall;
Now softly sighing, loudly swelling,
Lost in many a dying fall.

Harp of the winds! While, pensive
musing,
I mark thy deep impassion’d strain,
When trees their summer beauty
losing,
With yellow leaves bestrew the plain.

REFRAIN

Harp of the winds! While, faintly
beaming,
Yon moon hangs o’er the ruined
tower,
And flitting shadows dimly gleaming,
Seem subject to thy magic power.

REFRAIN

Anne Hunter

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