Three Songs of William Blake, Op. 20

Composer: QUILTER, Roger
  • Quilter wrote Three Songs of William Blake for voice and piano between 1916-17, setting the following poems by Blake to song:
    1. Dream Valley (text)
    2. The Wild’s Flower Song (text)
    3. Daybreak (text)1
  • William Blake (1757-1827) was a British writer and artist whose poetic directness and simplicity was embraced by Quilter.2

Sources

  1. “3 Songs of William Blake, Op.20 (Quilter, Roger),” IMSLP, accessed July 31, 2025, https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Songs_of_William_Blake%2C_Op.20_(Quilter%2C_Roger).
  2. Valerie Langfield, Roger Quilter: His Life and Music (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2002), 161.

Cut IDs

27249