Ernst Bacon

(1898-1980)

"The Servant Girl" (1918), oil on canvas, 152.5 x 61 cm, of the painter Amedeo Modigliani, contemporary of Bacon (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo)

 

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The musician Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago on the 26th May 1898, the same year of the composers Abramsky, Arundell, Bacarisse, Cheslock, Claflin, Delannoy, Demuth, Eisler, Gershwin, Hamerik, Harsányi, Hába, James, Knipper, Krohn, Lazarus, Massarani, Mihalovici, Mulder, Plaza-Alfonzo, Rankl, Rubinstein, Ullmann. Died in Orinda (California) on the 16th March 1980

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Ernst Bacon

OPERE

"A Tree on the Plains" was performed on the 2nd of May 1942 in Spartanburg

"A Drumlin Legend" was performed in New York on the 4th of May 1949

LIEDER

"Joy, shipmate, joy!" (Joy, shipmate, joy), text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Infant Joy" (I have no name), published in 1974, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"It's all I have to bring" (It's all I have to bring today), published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"When roses cease to bloom" (When roses cease to bloom, sir), published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Let down the bars" (Let down the bars, O Death), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"O friend" (Alter? When the hills do), published in 1946, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"My river runs to thee", published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Summer's lapse" (As imperceptibly as grief), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The Lamb" (Little Lamb, who made thee) n. 11, published in 1952, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"A wind like a bugle" (There came a wind like a bugle), published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Velvet people", published in 1948, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Der du von dem Himmel bist", published in 1928, text of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

"Water", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"To make a prairie" (To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee), published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The mountain", published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Die Nachtblume" (Nacht ist wie ein stilles Meer), published in 1928, text of Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

"Weeping and sighing", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"At the last" (At the last, tenderly), text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"What soft, cherubic creatures", published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"A Cradle Song" (Sleep, sleep, beauty bright), published in 1948, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Simple days", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Snowfall", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"A drop fell on the apple tree", published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Winter afternoons" (There's a certain slant of light), published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Grand is the seen", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"With the first Arbutus", published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Omaha", text of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

"As if some little Arctic flower", published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Whispers of heavenly death" (Darest thou now O soul), text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"One thought ever at the fore", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"The sobbing of the bells", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Twilight", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"The banks of the yellow sea" (This is the land the sunset washes), published in 1942, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Wandrers Nachtlied" (Über allen Gipfeln), published in 1928, text of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

"The swamp", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The heart" (The heart asks pleasure first), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Poor little heart!", published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Is there such a thing as day?" (Will there really be a morning), published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The little stone" (How happy is the little stone), published in 1952, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"A spider" (A spider sewed at night), published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Solitude" (There is a solitude of space), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Our share of night to bear", published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The red rose" (O my Luve's like a red, red rose), text of Robert Burns (1759-1796)

"Schilflied" (Auf dem Teich, dem Regungslosen), published in 1928, text of Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)

"I'm nobody" (I'm nobody! Who are you), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Lingering Last Drops", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Farewell", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The crickets sang", published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Wild nights" (Wild nights! Wild nights), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow), published in 1928, text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"World, take good notice", text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"In the silent west" (On this wondrous sea), text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The grass" (The grass so little has to do), published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The daisy follows soft the sun", published in 1947, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"No dew upon the grass", published in 1942, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The school boy" n. 3, published in 1958, text of William Blake (1757-1827)

"Sonnet" (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways), published in 1974, text of Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)

"To a loving husband" (If ever two were one, then surely we), text of Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (1612?-1672)

"There came a day" (There came a day at Summer's full), published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"She went as quiet as the dew", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Ich liebe dich", published in 1928, text of Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)

"Twilight" (Dreamily over the roofs), text of Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

"The bat", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"A clear midnight" (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless), published in 1942, text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"We never know", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"So bashful" (So bashful when I spied her), published in 1944, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"The gentlest mother" (Nature, the gentlest mother), published in 1971, text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Gentle Greeting" (I know not how it falls on me), published in 1952, text of Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

"How still the bells", text of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Was ist mir denn so wehe?", published in 1928, text of Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

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