The Death of Minnehaha

The Death of Minnehaha
William de Leftwich Dodge's painting Death-Of-Minnehaha

"The Death of Minnehaha" was a part of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.

It was later arranged by Charles Crozat Converse into a popular song. It was the second part (composed 1899) of the cantata trilogy The Song of Hiawatha by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

References

  • Cornelius, Steven (2004). Music of the Civil War Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313320810. 

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