Matthias Claudius
Poet
Matthias Claudius
1740 - 1815Matthias Claudius was a German poet, most notable for Der Mond ist aufgegangen (The Moon Has Risen) and editor of the journal Der Wandsbecker Bothe.
After studying at Jena, Claudius held a series of editorial and minor official positions in Copenhagen and Darmstadt until in 1788 he acquired a sinecure in the Schleswig-Holstein bank. He edited the Wandsbecker Bothe (1771–75), popular not only with a general readership, for whose enlightenment it was designed, but also with the most important literary men of the time. Among the journal’s contributors were the philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder, the poet Friedrich Klopstock, and the critic and dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the three of whom, with Claudius, formed a circle that fought against the prevailing rationalist and Classical spirit and sought to preserve a natural and Christian atmosphere in literature. Claudius’ own poems, e.g., Der Tod und das Mädchen, have a naive, childlike, and devoutly Christian quality.
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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 (1816) D499 21–23.i.1851 | Franz Schubert |
Am ersten Maimorgen, fragment completed by Reinhard van Hoorickx (1816) D344 Published 2002 | Franz Schubert |
Am Grabe Anselmos (1816) D504 | Franz Schubert |
An die Nachtigall (1819) D497 30.v.1851 | Franz Schubert |
An eine Quelle (1817) | Franz Schubert |
Bei dem Grabe meines Vater (1816) D496 | Franz Schubert |
Das Lied vom Reifen (1817) D532 | Franz Schubert |
Der Tod (1901) no.7 | Anton von Webern |
Der Tod und das Mädchen (1817) D531 | Franz Schubert |
Der Tod und das Mädchen (trans. for guitar by Tilman Hoppstock (1961 - ) (1817) D531 | Franz Schubert |
Klage um Ali Bey (1816) D496a | Franz Schubert |
Klage um Ali Bey (1815) D140 | Franz Schubert |
Phidile (1816) D500 | Franz Schubert |
Zufriedenheit ‘Lied’ (1816) D501 1815-1816 | Franz Schubert |
Zufriedenheit ‘Lied’ (1815) D362 1815-1816 | Franz Schubert |