Henry Hugo Pierson

(Oxford 12/4/1815, Leipzig 28/1/1873)

TESTI DEI LIEDER

"Die weiße Eul'"
di Caroline Leonhardt Pierson

"Dirge : Fear no more the heat of the sun"
da "Fear no more the heat o' the sun"
di William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"Elegie : Fürchte nicht mehr Sonnenglut"
di August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)

"John Anderson"
di Robert Burns (1759-1796)

"John Anderson, mein Lieb"
di Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876)

"The white owl"
da "When cats run home and light is come"
di Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"There be none of Beauty's daughters"
di George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)