If I built a world for you (Lehmann, Liza)

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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. London: Boosey & Co., 1904. Plate H. 4566, 4647.
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Work Title If I built a world for you
Alternative. Title Song
Composer Lehmann, Liza
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ILL 15
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 song (Moderato)
Text Incipit 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.
First Publication. 1904 – London: Boosey & Co.
Librettist Herbert Fordwych (1874–1922)
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice, piano
Extra Information 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 Originally intended for Lehmann's first opera, Sergeant Brue (1904) but withdrawn and published separately.

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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.