Last Rose of Summer, Tis the
Last Rose of Summer, 'Tis the. Old Irish air, orig. Castle Hyde, which became The Groves of Blarney c.1790 by R. A. Millikin, and was incl. by Thomas Moore, to his own new words, in his Irish Melodies (1813). Beethoven set the air, Mendelssohn wrote a pf. fantasia on it (Op.15, 1827), and it is sung by a sop. in Act 2 of Flotow's Martha.
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