

She whispers: You mean the Garden of Death, and it answers, Yes, Death. It comes from a passage in Chapter V of The Canterville Ghost where the character Virginia is speaking with the eponymous ghost and asks it where it sleeps. Vasilenko's title is sometimes said to have come from one of Wilde's poems, but he wrote no such poem. The Garden of Death ("after Oscar Wilde"), Op. 13 Spuk im Schloss, oder Böse Zeiten fur Gespensterģ acts a revised version of his 2-act 1929 opera Bily pan Klaren based on Wilde (although he took many liberties) premiered Neues Theater, Cologne,, conducted by Otto Klemperer in 1981 a new production by director Adolf Dresen was staged in Hamburg – this did away with Klaren's textual changes and was presented as Der Geburtstag der Infantinīily pan ( The Gentleman in White), Op. 30Ģ acts, with libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budin a 3-act version Spuk im Schloss was produced in 1931 Revised version of Der Geburtstag der Infantin, 1908ĭer Zwerg und die Infantin ( The Dwarf and the Infanta), Op. Premiered Budapest Opera House, 26 April 1918 Premiered New Orleans, 1947 an orchestral suite was produced in 1944Īz infánsznö születésnapja ( The Birthday of the Infanta) Griffes composed a song to this text in c. Les Ballons ( The Balloons) is a short poem, the second of the two Fantaisies Décoratives, the first being Le Panneau ( The Panel). Pete Doherty quotes the stanza beginning with "I never saw a man who looked/with such a wistful eye" in Broken Love Song on his solo album Grace/Wastelands. Swann set certain parts of the Ballad, along with The Harlot's House and other texts by Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John ClareĤ-part choir and organ words from Psalm 51 and The Ballad of Reading Gaol composed on the death of the composer's young niece Off the Loveblood CD, the song contains several verses from the poem in the chorus Published in a version by Ibert for piano duet in 1924 Premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Andrew Goodwin and Mira Yevtich

The works of Oscar Wilde that have been set to music include: Some are direct settings of Wilde's words or libretti based on them, and some are wordless settings inspired by his writings. Of more recent times, some have been the subject of musicals and film scores. In classical genres, these include operas, ballets, incidental music, symphonic poems, orchestral suites and single pieces, cantatas, and songs and song cycles.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. This is an incomplete list of music based on the works of Oscar Wilde. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation).

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