The Vacant Chair (Root, George Frederick)

Composition Year	1861
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, mixed chorus, piano; For voices and chorus with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the piano; English language

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Publisher. Info.	Pitman's Musical Library, Vol.1: Popular and Standard Songs and Duets (pp.84-85) London: F. Pitman, n.d.[1877].
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Work Title	The Vacant Chair
Alternative. Title	We shall meet but we shall miss him
Composer	Root, George Frederick
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IGR 46
Key	A-flat major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1861
First Publication.	1861
Librettist	Henry Stevenson Washburn (1813-1903)
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, mixed chorus (SATB), piano
External Links	HathiTrust

This song is a setting of a poem about a young lieutenant killed in the American Civil War.