Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (frē`drĭkh gôt`lēp klôp`shtôk), 1724–1803, German poet, important for his influence upon Goethe, the Göttingen Göttingen (göt`ĭng-ən), city (1994 pop. 128,420), Lower Saxony, central Germany, on the Leine River.
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..... Click the link for more information. movement. His epic Messias (4 vol., 1748–73, tr. The Messiah) created a literary storm when it first appeared in the Bremen Beiträge. The poem has the merit of being the first major modern work by a distinctively German poet, but the poem as a whole is weak, for Klopstock's genius was lyrical rather than epic. His rhapsodic, musical Odes (1747–80) strongly influenced German song composition. Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and many others set them to music. Klopstock also wrote a trilogy of dramas on the Germanic hero Hermann (1769, 1784, 1787).
..... Click the link for more information. poets, and the Sturm und Drang Sturm und Drang (sht
rm..... Click the link for more information. movement. His epic Messias (4 vol., 1748–73, tr. The Messiah) created a literary storm when it first appeared in the Bremen Beiträge. The poem has the merit of being the first major modern work by a distinctively German poet, but the poem as a whole is weak, for Klopstock's genius was lyrical rather than epic. His rhapsodic, musical Odes (1747–80) strongly influenced German song composition. Gluck, C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and many others set them to music. Klopstock also wrote a trilogy of dramas on the Germanic hero Hermann (1769, 1784, 1787).
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