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Love, unrequitedScoring: Soprano & Piano
Written: Tonbridge, UK (2023) Duration: 0'00 Publisher: N/A Cost: N/A 1. Havisham 2. Shipmates 3. My mistress' eyes 4. Immortal beloved First performed on Sunday 26th October, 2014, in the Music Room of Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees, by Helen Bailey, accompanied by Jeremy Harbottle. |
Selected extracts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters to his 'Immortal beloved', written on 6th & 7th July, c.1812.
Can our love persist otherwise than through sacrifices,
than by not demanding everything?
Canst thou change it, that thou are not entirely mine,
I not entirely thine?
Oh, look into beautiful Nature and
compose your mind to the inevitable.
Love demands everything and is quite right,
so it is for me with you, for you with me.
Oh, go on loving me – never doubt
the faithfulest heart of your beloved.
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.
than by not demanding everything?
Canst thou change it, that thou are not entirely mine,
I not entirely thine?
Oh, look into beautiful Nature and
compose your mind to the inevitable.
Love demands everything and is quite right,
so it is for me with you, for you with me.
Oh, go on loving me – never doubt
the faithfulest heart of your beloved.
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.