Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC41 O THAT I'D NE'ER BEEN MARRIED

For voice and piano
Composition date: 1922
Revised: ca. 1967-68
First performance: 29 Nov 1976 >>
Type of performance: Television broadcast
Location: Thames Television (pre-recorded at the Britten-Pears Foundation on 20 May 1976).
Performance details:

Peter Pears ten, Roger Vignoles pf.

Genre: Solo vocal
Text: Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Notes

This was one of Britten's earliest songs, and one he returned to several times during the 1920s. He revised it, along with Beware! (Nov 1922) and Fuzzy-wuzzy (ca. 1922) in ca.1967-68 and prepared it for publication. It was published, along with 'Beware!' and Epitaph (1926) in 1985.

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