Composition Year | 1871 |
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Genre Categories | Duets; For 2 voices, piano; For voices with keyboard; |
Work Title | La siesta |
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Alternative. Title | Duo |
Composer | Gounod, Charles |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | CG 399 |
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | ICG 166 |
Key | E major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1871 |
First Publication. | 1871 |
Librettist | Anonymous |
Language | Spanish |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | 2 soprano voices, piano |
Extra Information | A year after the publication of this work, Gounod published The Message of the Breeze, with English text. He also published a version of this in French, called La chanson de la brise that was intended as a sequel to La siesta. |