his pantheistic beliefs, his poetry and novels were barred from the curricula of the Prussian elementary and secondary schools, which resulted in his being forgotten after 1910. On the occasion of Schefer's 222nd birthday on July 30, 2006, a whole day was devoted to several of Bad Muskau's events as part of the Lusatian Music Summer, above all to his compositional oeuvre. Selected publications A selection of Schefer's works, Ausgewählte Werke, in 12 vols, was published in 1845 (2nd ed., 1857). Leopold Schefer, Ausgewählte Lieder und Gesänge zum Pianoforte, ed. & introd. by Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, Munich: G. Henle (2004) There are no studies about Schefer in English, but consult Bettina Clausen and Lars Clausen, 1985. Publications during his lifetime Gedichte, 1811 („Poems“, ed. by the Earl von Pückler-Muskau) Leopold Schefer's Gesänge zu dem Pianoforte, 1813 („Leopold Schefer's Songs“, ed. by the Earl von Pückler-Muskau) Palmerio, 1823 (novel, situated in contemporary Greece) Die Deportirten, 1824 („The Deportees“, novel on self-government at Botany Bay) Novellen, 5 vols., 1825 (short novels) Die Osternacht, 1826 („Easter Night“, novel on a flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate) Der Waldbrand, 1827 („The Bushfire“, novel, situated in Canada) Künstlerehe, 1828 tr. The Artist's Married Life; being that of Albert Dürer, New York 1867, London 1895. Kleine lyrische Werke, 1828 (poems) Neue Novellen, 4 vols., 1831 (short novels) Lavabecher, Novellen, 2 vols., 1833 (short novels) Die Gräfin Ulfeld oder die vierundzwanzig Königskinder, 2 vols., 1834 („Dame Ulfeld, or, the 24 Royal Children“, novel on a life sentence on a Danish rebel's widow) Laienbrevier, 1834 (1st half of the year)/ 1835 (2nd half of the year). (pantheistic poems, until 1900 21 eds.) tr. The Layman's Breviary, or meditations for every day in the year, Boston (Mass.): C. T. Brooks 1867 Kleine Romane, 6 vols., 1836 (short novels) Das große deutsche Musikfest, 1837 („The Great German Music Festival“, novel) Doppelsonate A-Dur zu 4 Händen, 1838 (composition) Doppelkanon zu 4 Chören, 1838 (composition) Der Gekreuzigte oder Nichts Altes unter der Sonne, 1839 („The Crucified, or, Nothing Old Under the Sun“, novel on a genocide in the Ottoman Empire [subject taken up and transferred to the 20th century by Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh]) Mahomet’s Türkische Himmelsbriefe, 1840 („Muhammad’s Turk Letters from Heaven“, poems) Viel Sinne, viel Köpfe, 1840 („Many Meanings, Many Minds“, narrative) Göttliche Komödie in Rom, 1841 („Divinia Comedia in Rome“, novel on the trial and execution of Giordano