White: The Nymph's Complaint for the Death of her Fawn for oboe, viola and piano

Code: JP1046
ISMN: 979-0-3019-0127-4

The Nymph's Complaint for the Death of her Fawn by Felix White (1884-1945) is for oboe, viola and piano and is based on a poem by Andrew Marvell of the same title. Although open to interpretation, the text of the poem can be thought of as a sad lament over hunters that have killed a nymph's pet fawn, a gift from her unfaithful lover. The music begins and ends with the lament, with a faster middle section that could be imagined as the fawn's frolicking through the woods in happier times. The work was composed around 1922. Duration approx. 8:15