Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Difference between revisions
Tchaikovsky Research
m (Text replacement - "<br>" to "<br/>") |
m (1 revision imported) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 13:12, 12 July 2022
German poet (b. 4 July 1715 at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 in Leipzig).
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Gellert
Gellert's poem Der Kuckuck from Book 1 of Fables (1769), in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1872), was set by Tchaikovsky in 1883 as The Cuckoo (Кукушка), No. 8 of the Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54.