Jelka Rosen in France - 1896
from Delius: A Life in Letters 1862-1908, page 104:
I hope you will enjoy that long twilight; but here it is beautiful too in our solitary garden, all full of oldfashioned roses, and birds and "Hollunder büsche". It is so intoxicating! I don't know whether you feel all this rich summer beauty, glow and perfume as I do, but I always hear it in your music, much more than in anybody else's. I love the accompaniment of: Nur schneller mein Ross; it is just my summer Stimmung, and I manage to play it, a desperate effort, but so exciting! Il pleure dans mon couer is beautiful too, but more in town, or perhaps in autumn when one feels like … more >>
Delius, and Lionel Carley (ed.), Delius: A Life in Letters 1862-1908 (), p. 104. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1461447717851 accessed: 22 December, 2024
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Il pleure dans mon couer
written by Delius |
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Nur schneller mein Ross
written by Delius |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1896 |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Letter from Jelka Rosen to Fritz Delius, Félicité, Grez par Nemours, 20th June 1896.