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{{picture|file=Octave Feuillet.jpg|caption='''Octave Feuillet''' (1821-1890)}}
{{picture|file=Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.jpg|caption='''Christian Gellert''' (1715-1769)<br/>in a portrait by Anton Graff (1736-1813)}}
French novelist and dramatist (b. 11 August 1821 at Saint-Lô; d. 29 December 1890 in [[Paris]]).
German poet (b. 4 July 1715 at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 in [[Leipzig]]).


==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Feuillet==
==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Gellert==
In the summer of 1879 Tchaikovsky wrote incidental music for an amateur production of Feuillet's play ''[[La Fée]], comédie en un acte en prose'' (Paris, 1856) at his sister [[Aleksandra Davydova]]'s estate at [[Kamenka]]. Only two fragments — a 'Cradle Song' and Waltz — have survived.
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]].


==External Links==
==External Links==
* [[:wikipedia:Octave Feuillet|Wikipedia]]
* [[:wikipedia:Christian Fürchtegott Gellert|Wikipedia]]


[[Category:People|Feuillet, Octave ]]
[[Category:People|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]]
[[Category:Writers|Feuillet, Octave ]]
[[Category:Writers|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]]

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Christian Gellert (1715-1769)
in a portrait by Anton Graff (1736-1813)

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.

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