Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC211 WANDERING WILLIE

For voice and piano
Composition date: Post Aug 1924
Date notes

Shares a volume with one of the sources for Independence, which Britten later noted had been originally composed in Aug 1924. The 'Independence' source was copied out some time after its original composition date.

Genre: Solo vocal
Text: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Notes

This song has the same melody and largely the same accompaniment as the earlier song, Big steamers (1922).

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