Title: ('Tis day when Chloris ope's her eyes)
First published: 1698
Description: This is the sheet music of a popular, sentimental love song written by Johann Wolfgang Franck (1644-ca.1710), a German opera composer in Hamburg in the 1680s; earlier he was a writer of religious songs - he set biblical passages and religious poems -  in Ansbach, Germany, at the court of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.  As a Kapellmeister to the court, he also provided musical instruction to the Margrave's family. Franck went from Hamburg to London around 1689 and became well known for his popular songs (secular) and London musical stage entertainments in the 1690s and very early 1700s.
Places: Ansbach, Hamburg, London
Time periods: 1690s