A Poison Tree

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A Poison Tree (1935)

song for voice and piano

by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

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general information

composition date: 1935
publisher: Inédit
Libretto (details, author): William Blake

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Unspecified solo voice and piano)

detailed formation

Soloist: unspecified soloist voice

piano

information about the creation

date: November 22, 1986
: Wigmore Hall

observations

Texte repris et remis en musique de façon radicalement différente dans le cycle dédié à Fischer-Dieskau : Songs and Proberbs of William Blake (1965) (cité dans Xavier de Gaulle, Benjamin Britten ou l'impossible quiétude, Actes Sud, 1996.)

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