Among Flowers, Op.28 (Foerster, Adolph Martin)

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Editor First edition
Engraver Leipzig: C.G. Röder.
Publisher. Info. Pittsburgh: H. Kleber & Bro., 1889. Plate 1.
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Misc. Notes Original images: ca.350dpi grayscale jpg files approx. 2305 by 3225 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Source: Adolph M. Foerster Collection, 1868-1923 CAM.FOER.2015, Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh Library System.
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Work Title Among Flowers
Alternative. Title Songs for a Soprano or Tenor Voice
Composer Foerster, Adolph Martin
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.28
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IAF 30
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 11 songs
  1. Violets
  2. Sunflowers
  3. Love in a Rose-bush
  4. For-get-me-not
  5. The Water-Sprite
  6. Among the Roses
  7. In Blossom Time
  8. Old Proverb
  9. Cradle Song
  10. On the Wild Rose Tree
  11. The Young Rose. A Ballad
Text Incipit see below
  1. Violets, pretty violets, that are hiding in the grass
  2. Sunflower what is the secret thing you hide
  3. Love is a rose-bush sleeping lay
  4. O'er slumber's sea go wing thy flight
  5. The lily is closing its chalice
  6. Messages of heavenly wonder
  7. O my heart, my heart, to be out in the sun and sing
  8. Love lived once in an humble shed
  9. In the embers shining bright
  10. On the wild rose tree many buds there be
  11. The young rose I give thee
First Publication. 1889 – Pittsburgh: H. Kleber & Bro.
Librettist see below
  1. Ellis Walton (pseudonym of Mrs. F. Percy Cotton)
  2. William Brighty Rands (listed as Lilliput Levée)
  3. August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
  4. Fanny Raymond Ritter
  5. Fanny Raymond Ritter
  6. Ḥāfiẓ and Fanny Raymond Ritter
  7. Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928)
  8. Thomas Moore
  9. Richard Watson Gilder
  10. Richard Watson Gilder
  11. Thomas Moore
Language English
Dedication see below
  1. To Miss Margie Wilson
  2. To Miss Grace Hiltz
  3. To Mrs. Jean Wallace-Webster
  4. To Chas. R. Adams
  5. To Miss Alice Andrus
  6. To Mrs. Corinne Moore-Lawson
  7. To Chas. Abercrombie
  8. To Miss Elizabeth Hetlich
  9. To Dr. Carl E. Martin
  10. To Miss Mary Buckley
  11. To William Courtney
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice (soprano or tenor), piano