"A Child Asleep" is a song, with lyrics from a poem written by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabet ...
. It was set to music by the English composer
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
in December 1909 and published in 1910 by Novello.
It was first published by Browning in 1840.
It is dedicated to Anthony Goetz, the son of Ludovic Goetz and
Muriel Foster, a favourite singer and personal friend of Elgar.
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Lyrics
Recordings
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The Unknown Elgar
' includes "A Child Asleep" performed by Teresa Cahill (soprano), with Barry Collett (piano).
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' Catherine Wyn-Rogers (soprano) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999
References
*Percy Young, ''Elgar O.M.''
External links
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Songs about children
Songs by Edward Elgar
Poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1840 poems
1909 songs
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