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| {{picture|file=Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.jpg|caption='''Christian Gellert''' (1715-1769) in a portrait by Anton Graff}}
| | #REDIRECT [[Modest Tchaikovsky]] |
| German poet (b. 4 July 1715 {{NS}} at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 {{NS}} in [[Leipzig]]).
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| ==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Gellert==
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| 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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| ==External Links==
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| * [[wikipedia:Christian Fürchtegott Gellert|Wikipedia]]
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| * {{viaf|9870867}}
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| [[Category:People|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]]
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| [[Category:Writers|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]]
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