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"A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.- Early life :Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad...

set to music by Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...

in 1892.

It was dedicated to 'Miss Marshall'.

The song was first published by Orsborn & Tuckwood, then by Ascherberg in 1892. It was re-published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

, with English and German words.

Lyrics

German words by Ed. Sachs.

English A SONG OF AUTUMN ' Where shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, When the boughs are yellow and sere ? Where are the old ones that once we had, And where are the new ones near ? What shall we do for our garlands glad At the falling of the year ? ' ' Child ! can I tell where the garlands go ? Can I say where the lost leaves veer On the brown-burnt banks, when the wild winds blow, When they drift through the dead-wood drear ? Girl ! When the garlands of next year glow, You may gather again, my dear— But I go where the last year’s lost leaves go At the falling of the year.'	German

Recordings

Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "A Song of Autumn" performed by Amanda Pitt (soprano), with David Owen Norris (piano).

Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Konrad Jarnot
Konrad Jarnot
Konrad Jarnot is an English baritone who works in opera and oratorio and is a notable performer of Lieder. He is a teacher at the Robert Schumann Hochschule.-Early life:...

(baritone), Reinild Mees (piano)

The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Christopher Maltman (baritone) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999

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