Enchanted Summer, GP 129 (Bax, Arnold)

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Work Title Enchanted Summer
Alternative. Title Enchanted summer : for women's chorus, mixed chorus, and two soprano soloists
Composer Bax, Arnold
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. GP 129
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IAB 9
Key A major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 movement, 3 sections
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1910
First Performance. 1912 March 13
First Publication. 1911
Librettist Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language English
Dedication To F. Corden, Esq F.R.A.M. my ever-true friend (actually Frederick Corder)
Average DurationAvg. Duration 30 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation 2 sopranos, chorus and orchestra
External Links Baxworks site
Wikipedia article (Dutch)

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words from Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" (Act II Scene II)

Corden looks like a typo for Corder (as in Frederick Corder, one of Bax's teachers)? Wikipedia-nl agrees ("whose name was unfortunately affected by a typing error (F. Corden)").