Let me not to the marriage of true...

Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments. Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds, 
Or bends with the remover to remove: 
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; 
It is the star to every wandering bark, 
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come: 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 
    If this be error and upon me proved, 
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 116

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

by Gary Bachlund , "Sonnet 116", 1983. [medium high voice and piano]
by Herbert Bielawa (1930-) , "For a wedding", 1975. [tenor or soprano and pipe organ]
by Rudolf Bruči , no title, 1987 [voice and piano], from Love and Time
by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) , "Let me not to the marriage of true minds", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets) no. ? (1944-5). [high voice and piano]
by Deryck Cooke , "Sonnet CXVI", 1944-5, from Ten Shakespeare Sonnets, no. ?
by Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) , "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments", 1947, first performed 1970, from Three Shakespeare Sonnets, no. ?
by Alfred Matthew Hale (1875-1960) , "Sonnet 116"
by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "Sonnet 116", 1991 [voice and piano], from Sonnets and Soliloquies, no. 2.
by William Michael Huebner and by Richard D. Lake , "The marriage of true minds", 1969. [three-part chorus, trio, harpsichord, guitar]
by Christopher James , "Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the marriage...", 1977. [soprano and organ]
by Björn Johansson , no title [tenor, two violins, viola, violoncello], from ...notes of Music, no. ?
by Leslie Kondorossy , "Let me not to the marriage of true minds", op. 138 no. ?, from Five Shakespeare Sonnets, no. ?
by Rex Le Lacheur , "Love is not love", published 1974 [SSA and piano], from Three Shakespearian Trios, no. ?
by Joan Littlejohn (1937-) , "Sonnet 116", 1960-80. [voice and piano]
by Bryony Phillips , "Marriage of true minds", 1982, first performed 1983. [soprano and violin]
by Solomon Pimsleur (1900-1962) , "Let me not to the marriage of true minds", op. 100 [choral symphony: SATB, orchestra], from Shakespearean sonnet cycle
by David A. Roth , "Love's constancy", 1966. [high voice and piano]
by Johan Selnes , "Sonnett" [SATB a cappella]
by Richard Simpson (-1876) , "Sonnet 116", 1864. [medium or high voice and piano]
by Max Sofsky , "Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 - Let me not...", 1973. [high voice unaccompanied]
by Gloria Swisher , "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
by Godfrey Winham , no title, 1957-60, published 1978, first performed 1961 [soprano and piano], from To prove my love, no. 3.
by Lee Zarchen , "Shakespeare sonnet: no. 116", 1983. [voice and piano]

by Anton Beer-Walbrunn , "Nichts kann den Bund zwei treuer Herzen hindern", op. 34, Heft 1, published 1907, first performed 1906 [medium voice, piano], from Ein Cyklus lyrisch-dramatischer Gesänge nach Shakespeares Sonetten

by Jan Hanuš , "O lásce", op. 48 (1960), published 1963 [low voice and piano], from Sonety na texty renesančních básníků

by Franz Alfons Wolpert (1917-1978) , "Sonett CXVI", 1965, first performed 1969 [baritone or bass and piano], from Fünfzehn Shakespeare-Sonette

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)
GER German (Bertram Kottmann)

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