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Gabriel Fauré – Les Berceaux, Op. 23, No. 1
…will come when farewells are necessary, and men are tempted to explore distant horizons. On that day, the ships feel their movement restrained by the longing of the distant cradles….
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Va, Pensiero – Verdi
“Va’, pensiero” is a chorus from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi. The song expresses the longing and despair of exiled individuals singing about their homeland. The lyrics depict the…
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Prisoner’s Chorus from Verdi’s Nabucco
…and depicts the Hebrews in Babylonian captivity. The song expresses their longing for freedom and their lost homeland. They seek comfort and hope for a future liberation from their oppressors….
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Antonín Dvořák
…longed for his homeland. This longing eventually led him to return to Bohemia in 1895. Last Years and Legacy Dvořák’s final years saw the composition of several string quartets, symphonic…
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Ludwig van Beethoven
…expressing his deep love and longing for her. The Twilight Years: The Symphony Continues Beethoven’s later years were marked by a rapid decline in his health and worsening deafness. However,…
