Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC942 IL EST QUELQU'UN SUR TERRE (THERE'S SOMEONE IN MY FANCY) [FSA 2/6, FRANCE]

For high or medium voice and piano

Composition date: Dec 1942

Genre: Folk song

Text: Traditional (set in French)

Duration: 5'

Dedication: 'To my young friends, Arnold and Humphrey Gyde'

Sons of the singer Sophie Wyss. Dedicatees of the published volume.

Britten conceived Volume 2 of his folksongs as a set and, unusually, added a date to the composition draft.

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