The Death Song of an Indian Chief

(1791)
Considered the first orchestral score published in America, Hans Gram was inspired by Sarah Wentworth Morton's first long poem Ouâbi; or The Virtues of Nature. An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos, published in 1790. The text is taken from that work.

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