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by Léon Bazalgette

a text in English by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Eugene MacDonald Bonner (1889-1983) , unknown title, published 1925 [voice, piano or orchestra], from Whispers of Heavenly Death, note: also set in English

by Samuel Hans Adler (1928-) , no title, published 1977 [medium voice, string quartet], from Sixth String Quartet (A Whitman Serenade)
by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "Darest thou now O soul", alternate title: "Whispers of heavenly death"
by Eugene MacDonald Bonner (1889-1983) , "Darest thou now, O soul", published 1925 [voice, piano or orchestra], from Whispers of Heavenly Death, note: also set in French
by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) , "Darest thou now, O soul", published 1910 [TTBB quartet a cappella], from Three Partsongs, no. 1.
by Roland Diggle (1885-1954) , "Darest thou now O soul", published 1948. [mixed voice chorus, piano]
by Isadore Freed (1900-1960) , "Darest thou now O soul", published 1928. [SSA, mezzo-soprano, piano]
by Philip Glass (1937-) , "Darest thou now, O soul" [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Michael Hennagin (1936-) , no title, published 1968 [SSA chorus, piano, flute, and percussion], from The Unknown, no. ?
by Michael Hennagin (1936-) , "Darest thou now, O soul" [SATB chorus, 3 baritones, 4 tenors, piano, flute, percussion, electronic tape, 2 slide projectors, 3 trumpets, timpani]
by Hans Werner Henze (1926-) , "Whispers from heavenly death"
by Bruno Siegfried Huhn (1871-1950) , "The Unknown", published 1918. [three-part female voices, piano, organ]
by Normand Lockwood (1906-) , "Darest thou now, O soul", 1959. [SSAATTBB chorus, piano]
by William Howard Schuman (1910-1992) , "The Unknown Region", published 1959 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Carols of Death, no. 2.
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "To the Soul", op. 97 no. 4 (1906), published 1908 [voice, piano], from Six Songs of Faith, no. 4.
by (Olav) Fartein Valen (1887-1952) , "Darest thou now O soul", 1928.
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Toward the Unknown Region", published 1907. [8-part chorus, orchestra]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Darest thou now, O soul", published 1925. [unison song, piano]
by Thomas Carl Whitmer (1873-1959) , "Darest thou now, O soul", published 1928 [quartet of solo voices, chorus, and piano or orchestra], from Choral Rhapsody, no. ?
by David McKinley Williams (1887-1978) , "Darest thou now, O soul", published 1926. [anthem: chorus, soprano, organ or orchestra]
by Charles Wood (1866-1926) , no title, published 1927 [low voice, piano], from Ten Songs for Low Voice

Date added to the website: 2005-07-07.

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