Sonnets from the Portugese. Sonnet II / [words by] Elizabeth Barret [sic] Browning ; music by Raymond Lemieux ; dedicated to Marian Anderson. [19--]

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Sonnets from the Portugese. Sonnet II / [words by] Elizabeth Barret [sic] Browning ; music by Raymond Lemieux ; dedicated to Marian Anderson. [19--]

1 ms. score (4 p.) ; 32 cm.

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Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Lemieux, Raymond, 1939-....

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...