Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow enters music through the long afterlife of his poetry in song, choral writing, and concert imagination. The poet from the USA wrote texts and narratives that composers drew into parlour song, cantata, and large-scale choral repertory. Works connected to poems such as The Song of Hiawatha, The Day Is Done, and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day show how 19th-century verse could move into popular and classical musical memory.

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