Noter

Original

Waterloo. John Wall Callcott. A cappella. Secular , Glee. Language. English. ATB.

Oversettelse

Waterloo. John Wall Callcott. A cappella. Sekulære, Glee. Språk. Norsk. ATB.

Original

Few contemporaries would have agreed with Callcott that Scott's poem on the battle of Waterloo was worth setting. Written with earnest intentions. the profits were donated for the relief of the widows and orphans of those killed in tha battle. the poem attracted much derision, summed up in Lord Erskine's epigram.

Oversettelse

Few contemporaries would have agreed with Callcott that Scott's poem on the battle of Waterloo was worth setting. Written with earnest intentions. the profits were donated for the relief of the widows and orphans of those killed in tha battle. the poem attracted much derision, summed up in Lord Erskine's epigram.