From: Karen Mercedes
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Subject: Re: Fairy Tale Art Songs?
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 Teressa000-at-aol.com wrote:

> Greetings all, I'm coming out of "lurking" status to gather some song information. I'm collecting art songs based on fairy tales - I've got access to opera arias and American musical theater, and that's about it. Any tale, any song for soprano voice (or one that could be transposed to sop.
without difficulty), any of the Western European Romance languages (don't have Russian or Czech yet, sorry). Would really love stuff in German. Let me know! Thanks, Teressa


Karol Szymanowski: Six Songs of a fairy-tale princess, Op. 31

Eric Coates: The fairy tales of Ireland (from his FOUR OLD ENGLISH SONGS)

Prokofiev: Three Children's Songs, Op. 68 - #3 The Little Pigs

Prokofiev: Ugly Duckling, Op. 18

Grieg: Solvejg's Song - #18 from PEER GYNT, Op. 23

Ned Rorem: Thoughts of a young girl (# 8 from THE NANTUCKET SONGS)

Debussy: La belle au bois dormant

Massenet: Rondelle de la belle au bois

Berlioz: Le roi de Thule (not sure if this is the same as the setting in
his LA DAMNATION DE FAUST; Gounod also set this in his opera FAUST)

Berlioz: Histoire d'une Puce (not sure if this is the same as "Une puce
gentille" from LA DAMNATION DE FAUST; same story as that used in
Mussorgsky's "The Song of the Flea", and in settings of "Es war einmal ein
Koenig" by Beethoven, in his "Lied de Miphistopheles in Auerbachs Keller"
or "Mephistos Flohlied", Busoni in his "Lied des Mephistopheles aus
Goethes FAUST", and Wagner in his "Lied des Mephistopheles I", #4 of his
Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust, Op. 5

KM
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