Enoch Arden (Strauss)

Enoch Arden
Melodrama by Richard Strauss
"Enoch Arden" (watercolour painting by George Goodwin Kilburne
CatalogueTrV 181
Opus38
TextAdolf Strodtmann (1829–1879), after Alfred Tennyson's Enoch Arden
LanguageGerman
ComposedFebruary 1897
DedicationErnst von Possart
ScoringSpoken voice and piano

Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss setting a German translation of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.