Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | Overture and three Parts |
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Composition Year | 1849 |
Genre Categories | Secular cantatas; Cantatas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; |
Work Title | The Corsair |
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Alternative. Title | A Cantata, entitled The Corsair; the words selected (from Byron's works) and the music composed by William Glover, author of the Oratorios, "Jerusalem," "Emmanuel," &c. |
Composer | Glover, William |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IWG 1 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | Overture and three Parts |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1849 |
First Publication. | 1849? – London: Robert Cocks |
Librettist | Selected from words by George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Voices, chorus, orchestra |
British Musical biography says The "Corsair," cantata, 1849 (printed 1856). Publication also mentioned in The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts, 10 March 1860.