Cameos (Lehmann, Liza)

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Work Title Cameos
Alternative. Title Five Greek Love-Songs
Composer Lehmann, Liza
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. ILL 38
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 5 songs
Text Incipit see below
  1. Sweet Rhodoclea, here I send a wreath wherein fair flowers blend
  2. Fill up my cup, saying always the name of my Heliodora
  3. If thou should'st fly from me farther than Ethiopia's Island
  4. If I were but the wind to kiss
  5. When thou forgest silver, forge for me, Hephaestus
First Publication. 1901 – London: Enoch & Sons
Librettist see below
  1. Rufinus (Epigrammatist)
  2. Meleager
  3. Paul the Silentiary
  4. Anonymous
  5. Anonymous
Language English (in translation by Jane Minot Sedgwick (1859–1918))
Dedication To Her Grace Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice, piano