Faust II

Cantata for solo voice (soprano), women’s choir (SSAA) and piano (text: J. W. Goethe) (Suzanne Summerville).

The manuscript of Hensel’s Faust is dated March 23, 1843, and the first performance took place during a Sunday music in October of that year. The text is based on the opening stanzas (4613-4678) of Part 2, Act I.