2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the famous English poet. Lord Byron, actually George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (born 22 January 1788 in London, England – died 19 April 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece), was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.
Fanny Hensel set a total of three poems by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Reading his poems was part of Fanny Hensel’s programme for practising and expanding her English language skills. She completed the work There be none of beauty’s daughters on 29 December 1836. Two manuscripts have been preserved in the Mendelssohn Archive in Berlin. In 1837 Fanny Hensel set two more poems by Lord Byron to music, keeping to the original English text. They are the songs Farewell! and Bright be the Place of Thy Soul (composition date 1 June 1837).
Furore published the three songs in two editions: for high voice and for medium voice.