Sullivan : The Lost Chord

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The Lost Chord (G Major) ♥

Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842-1900)

-- PDF sheet music download for soprano voice and piano (7 pages : one score and one part) --

Also available for voice and piano in F Major and for violin and piano

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A beautiful song by Sullivan (Easy)!
Instrumentation :	Voice (Soprano) and Piano	Period/genre :	Romantic (1815-1910)
Included :	One score and one part	Composed/published :	13 January 1877
Edition :	Edited by M.A. Caux	Skill level :	Grade 3/12 : Easy to moderate
Movements :	Andante moderato	Pages :	7

Sources :

Music : Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), The Lost Chord.

Words : Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864), A Lost Chord, 1858.

The Lost Chord is a song for voice and piano.

Sir Arthur Sullivan's manuscript for The Lost Chord is dated January 13, 1877.

Sir Arthur Sullivan composed this song at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness. Fred Sullivan died five days after, on January 18.

This song has been recorded by many singers, including Enrico Caruso, who sang it at the Metropolitan Opera House on 29 April 1912 at a benefit concert for families of victims of the Titanic disaster.

The Lost Chord is one of Sullivan's best-known songs, and it is still performed nowadays.

Program Notes :

This score of the beautiful and famous song The Lost Chord is set in the key of G Major.

It is intended for Grade 3 soprano singers.

PDF excerpt :

Sullivan : The Lost Chord (first page)
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References :

Sheet Music by Sir Arthur S. Sullivan Romantic Sheet Music

Associated collections :

Romantic Songs for Soprano Voice (Grade 3)

Soprano Voice Sheet Music Favorites (Grade 3) ♥

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The Lost Chord

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.

I know not what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.

It flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.

It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.

It linked all perplexed meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence
As if it were loth to cease.

I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ,
And entered into mine.

It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heav'n
I shall hear that grand Amen.