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- The composition and first performance of The Golden Legend.
- The plot of The Golden Legend, by Joseph Bennett.
LIBRETTO
- As PDF File. [44KB]
FULL SCORE
- IMSLP has the full score (autograph?) available as a PDF file.
VOCAL SCORE
- As PDF File [8.2MB]
PERFORMANCES
Review of the performance in Bath on 27th April 1887 from The Bath Chronicle. Advertisement and Programme for this performance.
The immense popularity of this work after its production at the 1886 Leeds Festival is born out by the large number of perfromances noticed in The Times in the years immediately following:
However, the two performances in Berlin in March 1887 did not meet with the approval the German critics.
MIDI Files
| Prologue | "Hasten, hasten" |
| Scene 1 | "I cannot sleep" |
| Scene 2 | "Slowly, slowly... O gladsome light... My Redeemer and my Lord" |
| Scene 3 | "Onward and onward... The night is calm and cloudless" |
| Scene 4 | "My guests approach" |
| Scene 5 | "Who is it coming... Virgin, who lovest the poor and lowly" |
| Scene 6 | "We are alone" |
| Epilogue | "God sent His messenger, the rain" |