Works with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as librettist
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Creators | View on IMSLP | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Code |
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| The Skeleton in Armour, Op. 28 | Arthur Foote (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) |  |
Op.28 / C.155 | 1891 | mixed chorus and orchestra |  |
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| The Black Knight | Edward Elgar (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.25 | 1889 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf | Edward Elgar (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.30 | 1895 | soprano, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Blind Girl of Castél-Cuillé, Op. 43 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.43 | 1901 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Witnesses | Craig Bakalian (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
2008 | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| The Peace Pipe | Frederick Shepherd Converse (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Stars of the Summer Night | Ethelbert Nevin (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major (low voice) | voice and piano | |
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| Dreams of the Summer Night | Charles Beach Hawley (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
G major (high voice), E major (low voice) | voice and piano | |
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| Hiawatha: Dramatic Cantata | Frederick Russell Burton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
1897 | soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Allah | George Whitefield Chadwick (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D major (for alto or baritone); E major (for soprano or tenor) | F.201 / L.7.22 | voice and piano | |
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| Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters | Franz Liszt (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
S.6 | 1868 | mezzosoprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Good Night, Good Night, Beloved | Ciro Pinsuti (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | 2 tenors and 2 basses male chorus |
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| The Day Is Done | Michael William Balfe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E major | voice and piano | |
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| The Farewell of Hiawatha | Arthur Foote (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E major | Op.11 | male chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Tale of the Viking | George Elbridge Whiting (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
1879 | soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Excelsior | Michael William Balfe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
2 voices and piano | |
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| Good Night! Good Night! Beloved! | Michael William Balfe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Rainy Day | Arthur Sullivan (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
G major | soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano mixed chorus and piano |
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| Melodrama of Hiawatha | Sadie Knowland-Coe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
narrator and piano | |
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| The Arrow and the Song | Charles Beach Hawley (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
G major (high voice) | voice and piano | |
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| Ships that Pass in the Night | Arthur Foote (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| King Robert of Sicily | Rossetter Gleason Cole (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F minor | Op.22 | narrator and orchestra | |
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| The Curfew | George Whitefield Chadwick (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
L.4.4 | 1914 | voice and piano | |
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| The Rainy Day | Amy Marcy Beach (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Come to Me | Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| The Day is Done | Annie Frances Loud (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D flat major | voice and piano | |
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| O Holy Night | Silas Gamaliel Pratt (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C minor (ends in E major) | voice and piano | |
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| Ode to Hesperus | John Henry Cornell (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | male chorus 2 tenors and 2 basses |
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| The Leap of Roushan Beg | Horatio Parker (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.75 | 1913 | tenor, male chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | John Liptrot Hatton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
B flat minor | voice and piano | |
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| Zephyrus | Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Skeleton in Armour | Rutland Boughton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
B minor | Op.2 | 1898 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| King Olaf's Christmas | Dudley Buck (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | tenor, baritone, male chorus, organ and orchestra | |
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| Paul Revere's Ride | Dudley Buck (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major | tenor, baritone, male chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Nun of Nidaros | Dudley Buck (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | Op.83 | tenor, male chorus, organ and orchestra | |
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| The Golden Legend | Henry Edward Hodson (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Charles Henry Mills (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Dreams of the Summer Night | Francesco Paolo Tosti (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Green Trees Whispered | Michael William Balfe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Arrow and the Song | Michael William Balfe (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| If Thou Art Sleeping, Maiden, Awake! | Charles Gounod (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| Daybreak | Eaton Faning (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
mixed chorus and piano mixed chorus and orchestra |
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| The Singers (In Memoriam - Arthur Sullivan) | Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
mixed chorus and piano | |
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| Scenes from Longfellow's 'Golden Legend' | Dudley Buck (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Good Night, Beloved! | Edwin George Monk (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
2 tenors and 2 basses male chorus |
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| The Rainy Day | Hermine Rudersdorff (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| I Know a Maiden Fair to See | Arthur Fickenscher (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major | female chorus and piano | |
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| Drifting | Ellen Dickson (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | voice and piano | |
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| I Heard a Brooklet Gushing | Edward James Loder (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Serenade from Longfellow's Play 'The Spanish Student' | Adolph Martin Foerster (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E major | voice and piano | |
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| He Said He Came To Find Me | John C. Andrews (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A major | voice and piano | |
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| The Village Blacksmith | George Schleiffarth (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| The Sea Hath Its Pearls | Charles Gounod (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice, violin, piano and harmonium | |
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| Not Enjoyment and not Sorrow | Gaël Liardon (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
4 voices | |
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| The Norman Baron | Thomas Anderton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and piano | |
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| The Curfew Bells | Stephen Ralph Glover (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | 2 voices and piano | |
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| King Olaf | Carl Busch (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Paul Revere's Ride | Carl Busch (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls | Lukas Florczak (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
G major | Mn.103 | soprano, horn and piano | |
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| She is Fooling Thee | Anonymous (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Three Sonnets of Longfellow | Peter Bird (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.26 | 2015 | mixed chorus and organ | |
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| The Building of the Ship | John Francis Barnett (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.35 | soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Four Winds | Carl Busch (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
soprano, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| 3 Choral Ballads | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.54 | soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Legend of the North | Percy Godfrey (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.23 | bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Hiawatha's Wooing | Rossetter Gleason Cole (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.20 | narrator and piano | |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Herbert Walter Wareing (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
soprano, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Nine Songs written by Longfellow | Frederic Hymen Cowen (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| 8 Indian Songs from 'Hiawatha' | Carl Busch (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| A Psalm of Life | Frederic Hymen Cowen (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major or E flat major | voice and piano | |
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| 3 Songs from 'Hiawatha' | Carl Busch (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Ballad of Carmilhan | Archibald Davidson Arnott (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.10 | baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| The Consecration of the Banner | John Francis Holcombe Read (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
soprano, alto, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Songs of a Wayside Inn | Richard St. Clair (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.24 | 1970 | mezzosoprano and piano | |
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| Stars of the Summer Night | James H. Phillpot (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E major | mixed chorus | |
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| Stars of the summer night | Henry Kleber (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Windmill | Herbert Horatio Nelson (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | John Blockley (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Village Blacksmith | Willoughby Hunter Weiss (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Stars of the summer night | John Liptrot Hatton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A flat major | |
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| Serenade | Charles J. Rockwell (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A major | 2 tenors and 2 basses | |
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| Kéramos | F. Clarisse Mallard (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The sea hath its pearls | Ciro Pinsuti (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | mixed chorus and piano mixed chorus |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Arthur Elwell Fisher (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.61 | soprano, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
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| Resignation | John George Callcott (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | mixed chorus and piano | |
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| It is not always May | Frank D'Alquen (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
G major | voice and piano | |
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| Hymn of the Moravian Nuns, at the Consecration of Pulaski’s Banner | Maria Lindsay Bliss (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A flat major | soprano, alto and piano | |
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| Ships that pass in the Night | Thomas Wilkinson Stephenson (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Spanish Serenade | Edward Elgar (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A minor | Op.23 | 1891 | mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| The Summer Night | Thomas Dunhill (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E minor | 2 sopranos, alto and piano | |
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| Resignation | Frank Romer (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major | voice and piano | |
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| The Bridge | Maria Lindsay Bliss (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| In the Twilight | Amy Marcy Beach (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
Op.85 | voice and piano | |
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Arthur Foote (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
C major | Op.17 | 1888 | 3 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | |
| Christmas Bells | Carlotta Ferrari (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
2020 | female chorus and keyboard male chorus and keyboard |
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| Good night, good night beloved | Maria Lindsay (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D major | soprano, alto, tenor and bass | |
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| Excelsior! | Jules Normann (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Trust her not | Francis Lancelott (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Bridge | Lady Carew (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
A major | voice and piano | |
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| Song of the Silent Land | George Russell (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| The Arrow and the Song | Charles Gounod (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D flat major | CG 447 | 1885 | voice and piano | |
| Living Poems | Arthur Sullivan (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | 1874 | voice and piano | |
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| The Dreary Day | Faustina Hasse Hodges (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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| Arrow and the Song | Ciro Pinsuti (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D major | voice and piano | |
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| Beware! | Charles Moulton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
B flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Beware! | James Ernest Perring (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
D flat major | voice and piano | |
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| Stars of the Summer Night | Christian Heinrich Weber (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
E flat major | voice and piano | |
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| The Rainy Day | Erminia Rudersdorff (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
F major | voice and piano | |
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| It Is Not Always May | N. De. Becker (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
2 voices and piano | |
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| The Bells | John Liptrot Hatton (composer) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (librettist) | |
voice and piano | |
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