• Year of composition: Probably Vienna 1783 (according to van Boer)
• Work category: Voice and piano
• Text author: Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)
• Duration: Approx. 1-5 min
• Detailed duration: 2'13 (according to the Naxos CD edition)

Solo voices/choir

Soprano

Examples of printed editions

Airs et Chansons pour le Clavecin, composés par Joseph Kraus, Maître de S. M. le Roi de Suède, à Stockholm, chez G. A. Silverstolpe et en commission chez Breitkopf und Härtel à Leipsic [sic] (1796). Facsimile edition, Autographus Musicus, Bandhagen (1980)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Z/Sv Kraus Sånger [Songs]

Literature

van Boer Jr, Bertil H: Die Werke von Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematisch-thematisches Werkverzeichnis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music series no. 56, Stockholm (1988); an updated edition in English with a partly revised VB-numbering was published in 1998 by Pendragon Press under the title Joseph Martin Kraus. A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study

Description of work

Schieltamente C major 6/8

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