Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 8 (7 scenes and epilogue) |
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Composition Year | 1894–95 |
Genre Categories | Secular choruses; Choruses; Symphonic poems; |
Work Title | The Lily Nymph |
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Alternative. Title | Dramatic Poem for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra |
Composer | Chadwick, George Whitefield |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | F.84 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IGC 36 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 8 (7 scenes and epilogue) |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1894–95 |
First Performance. | 1895-12-07
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First Publication. | 1895 |
Librettist | Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
Language | English |
Dedication | Philharmonic Society of Montreal |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Voices: soprano, tenor, 2 basses + mixed chorus (SATB) Orchestra |
Described as a cantata by Faucett (and, it seems, by the composer himself- "his 'dramatic cantata'"... in Faucett (2012), George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England, pp.141–44.