Song Settings for the Poet Lord Byron’s Hebrew Melodies
Hebrew Melodies was a collaboration between the English poet Lord Byron (1788–1824) and his friend, the Jewish composer Isaac Nathan. It is a collection of thirty poems by the poet, set to music by Nathan. The tunes Nathan composed were based on a variety of forms, including synagogue music, martial music, German lieder, and an oratorio. Byron is said to have been sympathetic to the Jews because of their precarious civic and social status in England and Europe at the time.
Credits
London: J. Fentum for the Proprietor, n.d., plates 102–5.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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