Richard Henry Stoddard

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)

American poet and critic (b. 2 July 1825 in Hingham, Massachusetts; d. 12 May 1903 in New York.

Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Stoddard

Stoddard's 1857 poem Roses and Thorns, in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), was set by Tchaikovsky as Legend (Легенда), No. 5 of the Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54 (1883).

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