- Year of composition: Probably Paris 1785-1786 (according to van Boer)
- Work category: Voice and piano
- Duration: Approx. 1-5 min
- Detailed duration: 1'20 (according to the Bluebell LP 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)
Musikaliskt tidsfördrif (1794)
Musikaliskt Allehanda (1823)
- 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
Allegro A major 3/8
Libretto/text
Point de tristesse, passons nos jours