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{{picture|file=Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.jpg|caption='''Christian Gellert''' (1715-1769) | {{picture|file=Christian Fürchtegott Gellert.jpg|caption='''Christian Gellert''' (1715-1769) in a portrait by Anton Graff}} | ||
German poet (b. 4 July 1715 at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 in [[Leipzig]]). | German poet (b. 4 July 1715 {{NS}} at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 {{NS}} in [[Leipzig]]). | ||
==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Gellert== | ==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Gellert== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [[ | * [[wikipedia:Christian Fürchtegott Gellert|Wikipedia]] | ||
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[[Category:People|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]] | [[Category:People|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]] | ||
[[Category:Writers|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]] | [[Category:Writers|Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:42, 13 August 2023
German poet (b. 4 July 1715 [N.S.] at Hainchen; d. 13 December 1769 [N.S.] 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.
