Hiking is the miller's delight

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Hiking is the miller's delight in a songbook from 1877
Müller fountain with the beginning of the text

Wandering is the miller's lust is the first line of a poem by the German poet Wilhelm Müller , which he published in 1821 under the title Wandering as part of the poetry collection Die Schöne Müllerin in the compilation Seven and Seventy Poems from the papers left behind by a traveling French horn player . The poem was first set to music by Franz Schubert in 1823 under the title The Wandering as part of the song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin . In the period that followed, various composers set the poem to music, including Heinrich Marschner , Otto Nicolai and Karl Hellmuth Dammas .

In 1844 Carl Friedrich Zöllner composed a four-part choral setting for male choirs in Oldisleben . In this version, the song became one of the most famous German-language hiking and folk songs .

Origin of the text

The beginning of the cycle of poems by the beautiful miller goes back to the poetic parlor game Rose, die Schöne Müllerin , which was premiered in autumn 1816 in the house of the Berlin State Councilor Friedrich August von Staegemann . Inspired by Giovanni Paisiello's opera La Molinara , the composer Ludwig Berger published the material as a play a little later. During his study visit to Italy, Müller wrote further texts on this subject at Berger's request and completed the cycle in Dessau in 1820. In the context of this cycle it becomes clear that the text is not only a carefree wandering song, but that it essentially deals with the compulsion to wander of journeymen and their longing to find peace.

monument

The beginning of the text can be seen on the Müllerbrunnen in Dresden-Plauen .

Web links

Commons : Hiking is the miller's pleasure  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hiking is the miller's pleasure  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Müller (Ed.): Seven and seventy poems from the papers left behind by a traveling French horn player . Christian Georg Ackermann, Dessau 1821, p. 7th f . Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  2. ^ Friedrich Karl von Erlach (ed.): The folk songs of the Germans . tape 5 . Heinrich Hoff, Mannheim 1836, p. 369 f .
  3. ^ GW Fink: Polyphonic songs and chants without accompaniment . In: General musical newspaper . tape 43 . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1841, p. 981 .
  4. ↑ a b c Erika von Borries: Wilhelm Müller: The poet of winter travel. A biography . CH Beck, Munich 2007, p. 126 f .