72 Milton D. Baumgartner 



printed in 1766 and 1770 respectively. The second translation 

 was a revision of the first and was included in his Lyrischen Ge- 

 dichten^^ in 1772 and in subsequent editions of his works. The 

 first was set to music by Krause who modernized Handel's compo- 

 sition. The revised translation was said to have been made at the 

 request of Princess Amalia, a sister of Frederick II, who desired 

 a German text for Handel's music. ^* It was performed a num- 

 ber of times at Berlin. 



Kosegarten (1758-1818) won recognition as a lyricist through 

 his three volumes of rhapsodies, including many translations of 

 English lyrics. The third volume of the rhapsodies contained among 

 others, translations of the Saint Cecelia odes of Dryden, Pope, 

 and Congreve, previously translated by Weisse, to which he also 

 added Smart's ode on the same theme.^^ Kosegarten's transla- 

 tion of Alexande/s Feast, however, had already been published 

 by Schiller in the " Musenalmanach " for the year 1800.^^ 



In the same year the translation of Noldeke and that of the 

 anonymous T — r were published in the " Neuen Teutschen Mer- 

 kur," edited by Wieland.^^ That Dryden's ode had gained its 

 greatest popularity at the beginning of the nineteenth century is 

 evident from the close succession in which new translations were 

 pubhshed, for it also appeared at Ziirich in 1805,^^ and again at 

 Vienna in 1812.^^ 



33 Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Lynschc Gedichte, pp. 303-316. Berlin, 1772. 

 For the separate translations of 1766 and 1770 see Goedeke, IV, p. loi. 

 The texts at my disposal were the reprint in C. D. Edeling's Hamhurg- 

 ischen Unterhaltungen, X, pp. 83-89. Hamburg, 1770; Ramler's 1772 edi- 

 tion just cited, and his Poetische Wcrke, II, pp. 49-55- Berlin, 1801. 



3* See " Anmerkungen " to Ramler's translation in Poetische Werke, II, 

 p. 272. Edeling in a note to the text mentions Krause's composition. 



35 Rhapsodieen von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten, III, p. 5 ff. Leipzig, 

 1801. The first volume appeared 1790. 



^^ Musen-AImanach fiir das Jahr 1800. herausgegeben von Schiller, pp. 

 185-198, Tiibingen. 



37 Der neue teutsche Merkur, 10. Stiicke, pp. 81-93, Oktober, 1800 . 



38 " Die drei Hymnen auf den Cacilientag von P. [ope], Congreve und 

 Dryden mit metr. Treue aus dem Engl. ubrs. : Isis Mtssch. usw." Zurich, 

 1805. Marz S. 193/210. See Goedeke, VII, p. 716. 



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