A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Dream of St. Jerome

DREAM OF ST. JEROME. A piece of pianoforte music attributed to Beethoven, and published by Cramer & Beale. It consists of the third of Beethoven's six sacred songs (op. 48) transcribed for the PF., and followed by an arrangement of the Welch air 'Merch Megan,' also for the piano. The piece derived its existence from the demand created by the mention of 'Beethoven's Dream of St. Jerome' in Thackeray's 'Philip,' that again being a mistake for 'St. Jerome's Love,' a poem adapted by Thomas Moore, in his 'Sacred Songs,' to the melody of the theme of the opening movement of Beethoven's Sonata, op. 26. The story is told in The Times of June 16 and 28, 1886.

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