At the risk of exposing all manner of ignorance, I seek the help of this list. I am in the midst of writing an overview of musical settings of 18th-century German poems, and have uncovered a very intriguing song from 1788 by Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, in turn a setting of August Niemann's "Am Callisten."
At the moment, I am not close to a good research library and thus am unable to ascertain the following:
(1) information about the poet Niemann and
(2) who is Calliste? In the poem it is clear he is a man and, as the poem begins, the subject of an unnamed narrator's tearful grief on a "day of treachery."
Any help would be most appreciated and gratefully acknowledged.
All best wishes,
James Parsons
Associate Professor of Music History
Southwest Missouri State University
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