Compositions with William Butler Yeats as librettist

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Creators Key Opus Composed Instrumentation Period/style Type Listen Code
Into the Twilight Peter Bird, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
PB 3 2005 soprano, mixed chorus, flute and violin Romantic Secular choruses
The Lake Isle of Innisfree Peter Bird, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
PB 12 2007 soprano, alto, tenor, mixed chorus and piano Romantic Songs
Grania and Diarmid (Diarmuid and Grania - Diarmuid agus GrĂ¡inne) Edward Elgar, composer
George Moore, librettist
William Butler Yeats, librettist
Op.42 1901 voice and orchestra Romantic Incidental music
A faery song Paolo Ugoletti, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
1998 voice and piano Modern Songs
Down By the Sally Gardens (Folk Song Arrangement) Peter Dyson, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2010 mixed chorus and accordion Modern Folksongs
The Falling of the Leaves Sivert Ellingsen, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2011 voice and guitar
voice
Early 20th century Songs
The Second Coming Gregory Carl Pfeiffer, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2011 narrator, oboe and harpsichord Modern Pieces
To an Isle in the Water Sivert Ellingsen, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
male chorus Modern Secular choruses
The heart of the woman Lawrence Gilman, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
alto and piano Romantic Songs
Faery Song Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
When You Are Old Lee Eitzen, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
1949 voice and piano Modern Songs
The Lake Isle of Innisfree Arthur Foote, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Sinfonietta Rob Peters, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
B minor Op.120 2004 soprano and orchestra Modern Sinfoniettas
6 Irish Songs (On poems by W. B. Yeats) Rob Peters, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
Op.85 1997 tenor and piano Modern Songs
The Player Queen John Alden Carpenter, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
Love Song of Life Roger Ellman, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
Op.7 2010 voice, 2 violins, viola, cello and piano
voice, piano and strings
Modern Songs
The Light and the Half-Light Roger Teichmann, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2013 2 sopranos, alto, baritone, oboe, violin, viola and cello Modern Songs
Songs Sacred and Profane John Ireland, composer
Sylvia Townsend Warner, librettist
William Butler Yeats, librettist
1929 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs, Sacred songs
2 Songs Rebecca Clarke, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
A Cradle Song Gary Bachlund, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2016 soprano and piano
mezzosoprano and piano
Modern Lullabies
The Curlew Peter Warlock, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
1920 tenor, flute, English horn, 2 violins, viola and cello Early 20th century Songs
Down by the Salley Gardens Rebecca Clarke, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Lake Isle of Innisfree Liza Lehmann, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
voice and piano Romantic Songs
A Dream of Death Ernest John Moeran, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
R40 1925 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
When you are old Frank Bridge, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
H.142 1919 voice and piano Early 20th century Songs
The Salley Gardens Anthony St. Pierre, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2008 voice and piano Modern Folksongs
Song of the Wandering Aengus Anthony St. Pierre, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2004 tenor and piano
baritone and piano
Modern Songs
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water (A Solo Lament) Anthony St. Pierre, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2004 baritone Modern Songs
A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety Anthony St. Pierre, composer
William Butler Yeats, librettist
2004 baritone and piano Modern Songs


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