In addition to the settings listed in the Lied and Song Texts Page
database, there are some other noteworthy musical settings of Byron's
poetry:
Robert Schumann: Incidental music to Byron's MANFRED, Op. 115, which
includes number of songs (not listed on the Lied and Song Texts Page)
Arnold Schoenberg: "Ode to Napoleon" (1941) (the poem is not sung but
declaimed - according to a score of pitches, rhythms, and declamatory
styles written by Schoenberg - to a musical accompaniment)
Paul Robinson: "The Incantation" for vocal ensemble (composed by Robinson
for the Hilliard Ensemble)
And don't forget the operas on Byronic themes:
About Byron, or featuring Byron as a character
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Virgil Thomson: LORD BYRON
Raffaelo de Banfield: UNA LETTRA D'AMORE DI LORD BYRON
Deborah Atherton and Allan Jaffe: MARY SHELLEY
Sally Beamish: MONSTER
David Malouf: MER DE GLACE
Based on works by Byron
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Giuseppe Verdi: I DUE FOSCARI - based on Byron's play THE TWO FOSCARI
Giuseppe Verdi: IL CORSARO - based on Byron's poem "The Corsair"
Gaetano Donizetti: PARISINA - based on Byron's poem "Parisina"
Gaetano Donizetti: MARINO FALIERO - based on Byron's play MARINO FALIERO
Gaetano Donizetti: TORQUATO TASSO - based partly on Byron's poem "The
Lament of Tasso"
Victorin Joncieres: SARDANAPALE - based on Byron's play SARDANAPALUS
Lubomir Denev: CAIN - based on Byron's play CAIN
BTW, there is also some noteworthy instrumental music inspired by Byron,
most notably Tchaikovsky's Manfred symphony (based on Byron's play by the
same name), and Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" (based on episodes in Byron's
epic poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage").
A choral work of note is Rossini's "Il pianto delle muse in morte di Lord
Byron".
(Also noteworthy: Marius Petipa's [choreographer] ballet LE CORSAIRE, with
music by Pugni, Delibes, Adam, and Drigo)
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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