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Composer: Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche

no. 1. Der Wandrer und sein Schatten (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
no. 2. Der Einsame (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
no. 3. Der Wandrer (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
no. 4. Nach neuen Meeren (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ENG

Five Danish Songs

no. 1. Pagen hølt paa Taarnet sad (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER GER
no. 2. Vi lo jo før saa længe (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
no. 3. To brune Øjne (Text: Hans Christian Andersen) ITA
no. 4. Jeg hører i Natten (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
no. 5. Far, hvor flyver Svanerne hen (Text: Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein) ENG

Five Songs from the Norwegian

no. 1. Søvnen (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
no. 1. Slumber song (Text: after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
no. 2. Syng, syng (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
no. 2. The nightingale (Text: W. Grist after Theodor Kjerulf)
no. 3. Jeg reiste en deilig sommerkveld (Text: John Olaf Paulsen) ENG
no. 3. At fall of glowing summer day (Text: after John Olaf Paulsen)
no. 4. Lengsel (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
no. 4. Longing (Text: after Theodor Kjerulf)
no. 5. Ved Solnedgang (Text: Andreas Munch) ENG
no. 5. Sunset (Text: after Andreas Munch)

Four Old English Lyrics

no. 1. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 2. So white, so soft, so sweet is she (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 3. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
no. 4. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN

Fünf Gesänge

no. 1. Frühlingslied (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x] ENG FRE
no. 2. The nightingale (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
no. 2. Die Nachtigall (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Ernest Henley)
no. 3. I-Brasîl (Text: William Sharp) GER
no. 3. I-Brasîl (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Sharp)
no. 4. Black Roses (Text: Frederick Delius after Ernst Josephson) GER FIN
no. 4. Schwarze Rosen (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FIN
no. 5. Herbstlied (Text: Jelka Rosen after Paul Verlaine) [x] ENG ITA ENG SPA
no. 5. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA

Maud

no. 1. Come into the garden (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 2. Go not, happy day (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 4. I was walking a mile (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 5. Birds in the high hall garden (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 5. Rivulet crossing my ground (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Seven Danish Songs

no. 1. Silken shoes (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE
no. 1. Seidenschuhe (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
no. 1. Silkesko over gylden Læst (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG GER FRE
no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER
no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
no. 3. Lyse Nætter (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG
no. 4. In the Seraglio Garden (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE
no. 4. Im Garten des Serails (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
no. 4. I Seraillets Have (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG GER FRE
no. 5. Wine roses (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x]
no. 5. Løft de klingre Glaspokaler (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG
no. 6. Through long, long years (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x] GER FRE
no. 6. Det bødes der for (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE ENG
no. 7. Let springtime come (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE GER
no. 7. Den Lenz lass kommen (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
no. 7. Lad Vaaren komme (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER

Seven Songs from the Norwegian

no. 1. Abendstimmung (Text: Franz von Holstein after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
no. 1. Twilight Fancies (Text: F. S. Copeland after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) GER
no. 2. Klein Venevil (Text: Edmund Lobedanz after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
no. 3. Verborg'ne Liebe (Text: Wilhelm Henzen after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
no. 4. Spielmann (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
no. 5. Ein Vogelweise (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
no. 6. Wiegenlied (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ENG ITA
no. 7. Heimkehr (Text: G. Tischer after Aasmund Olavsson Vinje)

Songs of Farewell

no. 1. How sweet the silent backward tracings (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. Passage to you (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. Joy, shipmate, joy (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 5. Now finalè to the shore (Text: Walt Whitman)

Songs of Sunset

no. 1. A song of the setting sun! (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 2. Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 3. Pale amber sunlight falls across (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 4. O Mors! (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 5. Exile (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 6. In spring (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 7. I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (Text: Ernest Dowson)
no. 8. Vitae summa (Text: Ernest Dowson)

Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine

no. 1. Il pleure dans mon cœur (Text: Paul Verlaine) RUS ENG ITA GER GER
no. 2. Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI
no. 3. La lune blanche (Text: Paul Verlaine) SPA RUS ENG ITA GER CZE HUN ENG ITA GER SRB
no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA

Three Songs, the words by Shelley

no. 1. Indian love song (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA GER GER
no. 2. Love's philosophy (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
no. 3. To the Queen of my Heart (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) DAN

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A late lark (Text: William Ernest Henley)
A song of the setting sun! (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Abendstimmung (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Franz von Holstein after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
An den Sonnenschein (Text: Robert Reinick) ENG FRE
At fall of glowing summer day (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: after John Olaf Paulsen)
Aus deinen Augen fließen meine Lieder (Text: Dorothea Böttcher von Schwerin)
Autumn (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER
Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG
Birds in the high hall garden (in Maud) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Black Roses (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Frederick Delius after Ernst Josephson) GER FIN
Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Chanson d'automne (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA
Chanson d'automne (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER ENG GER SPA
Chanson de Fortunio (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) RUS SWE
Come into the garden (in Maud) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Cynara (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Das Veilchen (Text: after Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein) ENG
Den Lenz lass kommen (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
Der Einsame (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Der Fichtenbaum (Text: Heinrich Heine) NOR RUS ENG ITA FRE UKR
Der Wandrer (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Der Wandrer und sein Schatten (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Det bødes der for (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE ENG
Die Nachtigall (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Ernest Henley)
Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE ENG UKR
Ein Vogelweise (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
Exile (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Far, hvor flyver Svanerne hen (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein) ENG
Frühlingslied (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x] ENG FRE
Go not, happy day (in Maud) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
Heimkehr (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: G. Tischer after Aasmund Olavsson Vinje)
Herbst (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG
Herbstlied (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Paul Verlaine) [x] ENG ITA ENG SPA
Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen (Text: Heinrich Heine) DUT NOR HEB SPA CAT ENG ITA FRE FIN CZE ENG ITA FRE
How sweet the silent backward tracings (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
I Seraillets Have (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG GER FRE
I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
I was walking a mile (in Maud) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I-Brasîl (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: William Sharp) GER
I-Brasîl (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Sharp)
Idyll
Il pleure dans mon cœur (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) RUS ENG ITA GER GER
Im Garten des Serails (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
In spring (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
In the Seraglio Garden (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE
Indian love song (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA GER GER
Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER
Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
It was a lover and his lass (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FRE FIN
Jeg havde en nyskåren Seljefløyte (Text: Vilhelm Krag)
Jeg hører i Natten (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
Jeg reiste en deilig sommerkveld (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: John Olaf Paulsen) ENG
Joy, shipmate, joy (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Klein Venevil (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Edmund Lobedanz after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
La lune blanche (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) SPA RUS ENG ITA GER CZE HUN ENG ITA GER SRB
Lad Vaaren komme (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI
Lengsel (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
Let springtime come (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE GER
Løft de klingre Glaspokaler (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG
Longing (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: after Theodor Kjerulf)
Love's philosophy (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
Lyse Nætter (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG
Lyse Nætter (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG
Mit deinen blauen Augen (Text: Heinrich Heine) SPA RUS ENG ITA FRE ENG ITA SWE
Nach neuen Meeren (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ENG
Noch ein Mal (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Now finalè to the shore (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Nuages (Text: Jean Richepin) [x]
O Mors! (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
O schneller, mein Roß (Text: Emanuel von Geibel) ENG
Pagen hølt paa Taarnet sad (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER GER
Pale amber sunlight falls across (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Passage to you (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Rivulet crossing my ground (in Maud) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Sakuntala (Text: Edmund Lobedanz after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) [x]
Schwarze Rosen (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FIN
Sea-drift [multi-text setting]
Seidenschuhe (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
Silken shoes (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) GER FRE
Silkesko over gylden Læst (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG GER FRE
Skogen gir sussende, langsom beskjed (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
Slumber song (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
So white, so soft, so sweet is she (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Ben Jonson)
Sommer i Gurre (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
Sommer Landschaft (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG
Søvnen (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
Spielmann (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
Spring, the sweet spring (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Summer Landscape (Text: Frederick Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) GER
Summer nights (Text: Friedrich Christian Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
Sunset (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: after Andreas Munch)
Syng, syng (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
The nightingale (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
The nightingale (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: W. Grist after Theodor Kjerulf)
The splendour falls on castle walls (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
The violet (Text: after Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein) GER
Through long, long years (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x] GER FRE
To brune Øjne (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Hans Christian Andersen) ITA
To daffodils (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
To the Queen of my Heart (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) DAN
Traum Rosen (Text: Heinitz) [x]
Twilight Fancies (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: F. S. Copeland after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) GER
Ved Solnedgang (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Andreas Munch) ENG
Verborg'ne Liebe (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Wilhelm Henzen after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
Vi lo jo før saa længe (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
Viol (Text: Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein) [x] ENG GER
Vitae summa (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Wanderer's song (Text: Arthur Symons)
Wiegenlied (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ENG ITA
Wine roses (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: after Jens Peter Jacobsen) [x]

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