Works with Walt Whitman as librettist
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Creators | View on IMSLP | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Code |
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| Drum Taps | Tui St. George Tucker (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) |  |
1973 | male chorus, 3 clarinets, percussion, cello, double bass and piano |  |
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| A Sea Symphony | Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1903 | soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Your Journey From Me, for Voice and Piano | Jeff Manookian (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1986 | voice and piano | |
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| After the Dazzle of Day | Lyle K. Neff (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1978 | voice and piano | |
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| Dirge for Two Veterans, Op. 13 | Frédéric Louis Ritter (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
C major | Op.13 | 1880 | voice and piano | |
| O Captain! My Captain!, Op. 19 | Edgar Stillman Kelley (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
C major | Op.19 | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| Weave in, My Hardy Life | Frank V. Van der Stucken (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
B flat major | mixed chorus | |
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| We Two Together, Schleifer 223 | William Wallace Gilchrist (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
C major | Schleifer 223 | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| Toward the Unknown Region | Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1906 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| 3 Poems By Walt Whitman | Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1925 | voice and piano | |
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| Elegiac Ode | Charles Villiers Stanford (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
D minor | Op.21 | 1884 | soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| In Memoriam | James Hotchkiss Rogers (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) and Robert Louis Stevenson (librettist) and Edwin Arnold (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Inscriptions | Vivian Fine (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1986 | 2 voices and piano | |
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| By the bivonac’s fitful flame | Hamilton Harty (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Last Invocation | Frank Bridge (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
H.136 | 1918 | voice and piano | |
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| 2 Songs | Marshall Kernochan (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Give me the splendid silent sun | Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Way of the River | Robert G. Patterson (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) and James Joyce (librettist) and Rudyard Kipling (librettist) and William Wordsworth (librettist) and Sara Teasdale (librettist) | |
GRM-01036 | 2011 | soprano, bass clarinet, violin and piano | |
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| My Captain | Cyril Scott (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
G major (medium voice); F major | Op.38 | voice and piano | |
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| Lilac-Time | Cyril Scott (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
C major (medium voice); unknown key (high voice) | voice and piano | |
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| Invocation | Emerson Whithorne (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Flight of the Eagle | Homer Albert Norris (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
soprano, tenor, baritone and piano | |
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| Vom ewigen Leben | Franz Schreker (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1923 | soprano and piano | |
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| The Love Duet | Andrew Violette (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1996 | soprano, tenor and piano | |
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| American Song Set | Andrew Violette (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) and Edgar Allan Poe (librettist) and Mark Twain (librettist) and Robert Frost (librettist) and Edwin Arlington Robinson (librettist) and Emily Dickinson (librettist) | |
1996 | voice and piano | |
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| An Echo from the Shore | Gary Bachlund (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
2002 | soprano, oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord | |
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| 9 English Songs | Paul Hindemith (composer) and Charles Wolfe (librettist) and Thomas Moore (librettist) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (librettist) and Samuel Lover (librettist) and Francis Thompson (librettist) and William Blake (librettist) and Walt Whitman (librettist) and Robert Herrick (librettist) and William Oldys (librettist) | |
1942 | voice and piano | |
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| When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Als Flieder jüngst mir im Garten blüht' |
Paul Hindemith (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1946 | mezzosoprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Sea-Drift | Frederick Delius (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
RT II/3 | 1903 | baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Eine lichte Mitternacht | Paul Hindemith (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1929 | male chorus | |
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| In Cabin'd Ships at Sea | Tamás Beischer-Matyó (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
C major | 2013 | mezzosoprano, viola and cello | |
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| 3 Hymnen | Paul Hindemith (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
Op.14 | 1919 | voice and piano | |
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| Ode to Death | Gustav Holst (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
A minor | H.144 | 1919 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| 2 Songs | Louis Campbell-Tipton (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
Op.33 | voice and piano | |
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| A Dirge for Two Veterans | Gustav Holst (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
H.121 | 1914 | male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 tubas and 2 percussions male chorus, 3 cornets, trombone, tuba and 2 percussions male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 cellos and 2 percussions male chorus, 3 cornets, 2 double basses and 2 percussions male chorus, 3 cornets, cello, double bass and 2 percussions |
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| Full Moon in the West | Carlotta Ferrari (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
2019 | mixed chorus | |
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| Oh me! Oh life! | Álvaro Gallegos (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
2019 | voice and piano | |
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| Ethiopia Saluting the Colours | Charles Wood (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Ethiopia Saluting The Colors | Harry Thacker Burleigh (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Come Lovely and Soothing Death | David Lesniaski (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
mixed chorus | |
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| Symphony No. 1 | Karl Amadeus Hartmann (composer) and Walt Whitman (librettist) | |
1955 | alto and orchestra | |
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