August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Poet

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

1767 - 1845

August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of Jena Romanticism along with his brother Friedrich Schlegel. His translations of Shakespeare made the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

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Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

Abendlied für die Entfernte (1825) D856 Franz Schubert
Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag (1873) WoO 22 no.3 Johannes Brahms, arranged Aribert Reimann
Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag (1873) WoO 22 no.3 Johannes Brahms
Lebensmelodien (1816) D395 Franz Schubert
Lied des transferierten Zettel Hugo Wolf
Lied von Shakespeare (1860) Op. 17 no.2 Johannes Brahms
Lob der Tränen (1818) D711 Franz Schubert
Sein Leichenhemd weiss (1873) WoO 22 no.2 Johannes Brahms, arranged Aribert Reimann
Sein Leichenhemd weiss (1873) WoO 22 no.2 Johannes Brahms
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss (1873) WoO 22 no.4 Johannes Brahms, arranged Aribert Reimann
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss (1873) WoO 22 no.4 Johannes Brahms
Ständchen ('Horch, horch! die Lerch') (1826) D889 Franz Schubert
Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück? (1873) WoO 22 no.5 Johannes Brahms, arranged Aribert Reimann
Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück? (1873) WoO 22 no.5 Johannes Brahms
Wie erkenn ich dein Treulieb (1873) WoO 22 no.1 Johannes Brahms, arranged Aribert Reimann
Wie erkenn ich dein Treulieb (1873) WoO 22 no.1 Johannes Brahms
Wiedersehn (1825) D855 Franz Schubert

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