A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tiedge, Christoph

TIEDGE, Christoph August, born 1752, died March 8, 1841; a German elegiac poet and friend of Beethoven's, who in Rhineland dialect always called him 'Tiedsche,' and who set some lines to Hope—'an die Hofihung'—from his largest and best poem, 'Urania,' to music twice, once in E♭, op. 32, and again in G, op. 94. Both are for voice and piano; the former dates from 1808, the latter from 1816. Tiedge's name occurs in the correspondence between Beethoven and Amalie Sebald, and there is a most interesting letter from Beethoven to him of Sept. II, 1811, betokening great intimacy. (Thayer, iii. 179, 213, etc.)

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