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Sheet Music
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Editor
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First edition
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Publisher. Info.
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London: Boosey & Co., 1904. Plate H. 4566, 4647.
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Copyright
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Misc. Notes
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From uploader's collection (file #555930).
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General Information
Work Title
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If I built a world for you
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Alternative. Title
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Song
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Composer
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Lehmann, Liza
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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ILL 15
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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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1 song (Moderato)
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Text Incipit
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If I built a world for you dear, If I built a world for you, I would make the land of popcorn, And the sea of morning dew.
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First Publication.
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1904 – London: Boosey & Co.
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Librettist
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Herbert Fordwych (1874–1922)
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Language
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English
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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Piece Style
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Romantic
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Instrumentation
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voice, piano
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Extra Information
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Published in C, E flat and F (major). Originally intended for Lehmann's first opera, Sergeant Brue (1904) but withdrawn and published separately.
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Navigation etc.
The librettist's is a pseudonym (he also used the name Max Cardiff, the name under which his death was registered). He had three children (who took the name Fordwych) by an actress, Alice Boothby, before she married her first husband in 1923.