Charles Wood(1866-1926)
Charles Wood, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Armagh on the 15th June 1866, the same year of the composers Abbiate, Baussnern, Berutti, Busoni, Cilea, Clutsam, Cole, Daneau, Doret, Drysdale, Duncan, Döbber, Fedeli, Felix, Hollaender, Kalinnikov, Kaskel, Korn, Lincke, Lucas, Rebikov, Röhr, Satie, Scharrer, Strauss. He died in Cambridge on the 12nd July 1926 project Wood (Deeper articles)Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism OPERE"The Pickwick Papers" was performed in 1922 in Londra (Royal College of Music)LIEDER"There be none of Beauty's daughters", text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)"Dirge for two veterans" (The last sunbeam), published in 1901, text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) "Echo" (Come to me in the silence of the night), text of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) "Darest thou now O soul", published in 1927, text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) "Holy Thursday" ('Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean), published in 1931, text of William Blake (1757-1827) "Full fathom five" (Full fathom five thy father lies), text of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Ethiopia saluting the colors", published in 1898, text of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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"A Carnival Evening" (1886), oil on canvas, 106.9 x 89.3 cm, of the painter Henri Rousseau, contemporary of Wood (Museum of Art, Philadelphia) Charles Wood |
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