Proverbs of Hell

This is a collection of 20 short songs written to the text of "Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake (1757-1827) from his book "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." It includes: 1st Notebook, op151 (2006-07) Introduction; 1. A Little Flower; 2. The Busy Bee; 3. An Eagle; 4. The Clock; 5. Pestilence; 6. Black and White; 7. Eternity; 2nd Notebook, op185 (2015-16) Introduction; 8. Learn, Teach, Enjoy; 9. The Cart and the Plough; 10. The Palace of Wisdom; 11. Prudence and Incapacity; 12. The Worm and the Plough 3rd Notebook, op186 (2016) Introduction 13. Dip him... 14. A fool sees not... 15. He whose face... 16. No bird soars... 4th Notebook, op191 (2017) Introduction; 17. All Wholsome Food... 18. A Year of Dearth... 19. Revenges not Injuries... 20. The most sublime act... Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (pen names Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky) is a Russian and British composer. He was born in 1948 in Minsk into a family of opera singers Nikolay Senkin-Sadovsky and Eugenia Smirnova. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1967-1972 under Nikolai Sidelnikov, Yuri Kholopov and Edison Denisov. He also studied privately with Philip Herschkowitz, a pupil of both Berg and Webern. Many of Smirnov's works reflect his fascination with the poetry and art of William Blake.