Jacob Nicolaus Craigher de Jachelutta

Poet

Jacob Nicolaus Craigher de Jachelutta

1797 - 1855

Jacob Nicolaus Craigher de Jachelutta was an Austrian poet and translator.  

He met Schubert in 1825 and gave him three of his poems to set, Die junge Nonne (D828), Totengräbers Heimwehe (D842), and Der blinde Knabe (D833), which was his translation of The Blind Boy by the English playwright and Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber.

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.

Der blinde Knabe (1825) D833 Franz Schubert
Die junge Nonne (1815) D828 Franz Schubert
Totengräbers Heimweh (1825) D842 Franz Schubert

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