Weyrauch, August Heinrich von
Weyrauch, August Heinrich von
Weyrauch, August Heinrich von, German composer; b. Riga, April 30, 1788; b. place and date unknown. In 1824 he publ. (under his own name) a song, “Nach Osten” (words by Wetzel). About 1840 an anonymous Paris publisher reprinted it, with Schubert’s name on the title page, as “Adieu” (French words by Belanger); a piano transcription of it, also crediting the authorship to Schubert, was publ. by Döhler in Germany (1843); Schlesinger of Berlin reprinted the song, with a German tr. of the French text, as Schubert’s in 1845; since then it has been reprinted many times as Schubert’s by European and American publishers.
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