Hermit Songs is a cycle of ten songs for voice and piano by Samuel Barber. Written in 1953 on a grant from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, it takes as its basis a collection of anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth H. Jackson and Seán Ó Faoláin. The Hermit Songs received their premiere in 1953 at the Library of Congress, with soprano Leontyne Price and Barber himself as pianist.
| Date of composition | 1953 |
| Premiered | 1953 (Library of Congress) in Washington, DC, United States by Samuel Barber |
| Type | Song(s) |
| Catalogue | Op. 29 |
| Instruments |
Voice
Piano |
| Autotranslations beta |
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