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"The Grand Canal, Venice" (1835), oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2 cm, of the painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, contemporary of Pierson (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Henry Hugo Pierson(1815-1873)The composer Henry Hugo Pierson (Pearson) was born in Oxford on the 12nd April 1815, the same year of the composers Boieldieu, Buzzolla, Glover, Krogulski, Løvenskjold, Solera. He died in Leipzig on the 28th Jenuary 1873 project Pierson (Deeper articles)Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Romanticism OPERE"Der Elfensieg" was performed in 1845 in Brno"Leila" was performed on the 22nd of February 1848 in Amburgo "Contarini, oder Die Verschwörung zu Padua" (Fenice) was performed on the 16th of April 1872 in Amburgo Henry Hugo Pierson LIEDER"John Anderson, mein Lieb", text of Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876)"There be none of Beauty's daughters", text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) "Die weiße Eul'", text of Caroline Leonhardt Pierson "Elegie: Fürchte nicht mehr Sonnenglut", text of August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845) "Dirge: Fear no more the heat of the sun" (Fear no more the heat o' the sun), text of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "John Anderson", text of Robert Burns (1759-1796) "The white owl" (When cats run home and light is come), text of Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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