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'''Title:''' ''The Crown of Roses'' (Легенда, ''Legend'', Op 54 No. 5)<br> | '''Title:''' ''The Crown of Roses'' (Легенда, ''Legend'', Op 54 No. 5)<br> |
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- Editor: Matthew Watts (submitted 2020-01-18). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Mark Chapman (submitted 2009-02-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 312 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: The Crown of Roses (Легенда, Legend, Op 54 No. 5)
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lyricist: Aleksey Pleshcheyevcreate page , after Richard Henry Stoddard
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
(with minor divisi in bass)
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1883
Description: First published as #5 in the composer's collection "Songs for the Young" for voice & piano; arr. by the composer for chorus 1889. Stoddard's poem Roses and Thorns begins "The young child Jesus had a garden". English versions matching the 8-syllable lines of Pleshcheyev's imitation are "When Jesus Christ was but a child" (G. Deamer) and "Fair was the garden, blest with flow'rs" (William Gurney Rothery).
External websites:
- Tchaikovsky-research.net entry
- 16 Songs for Children, Op.54 at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
- Arensky's String Quartet opus 35 at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP), whose second movement was arranged as Variations on a Theme by P.Tschaikovsy for String Orchestra (1894), op. 35a
Original text and translations
English text When Jesus Christ was yet a child |
German translation Als Jesus noch ein Kind war, |