Spring song

This article covers spring songs as a musical genre. For the German feature film of the same name from 1954 see spring song (film) .

Spring songs say goodbye to winter, greet the beginning spring, or enjoy the arrival of spring.

Short Story

Spring songs have been sung from the 13th to the 21st century. One of the oldest forgotten spring songs is the dance dance May time bannet sorrow , from the 13th century. Is advised not forgotten Winter is gone - originally from the Dutch - from the 16th century. One of the most famous songs comes from the 18th century: Come, dear May, and do , which was written by Christian Adolph Overbeck and set to music by Mozart . The majority of the spring songs that are still popular today were composed in the 19th century. Hoffmann von Fallersleben , in particular, contributed to this . B. with All birds are already there , goodbye winter, it hurts to part and cuckoo, cuckoo, calls from the forest or Emanuel Geibel with May has come . Less known than songs are many spring poems such as Die linden Lüfte are awakened by Ludwig Uhland , set to music by Franz Schubert and also by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and many others, Goethe's How gloriously shines for me , set to music by Friedrich Silcher or Frühling (Juchhei Blümlein, dufte und blühe) by Ernst Moritz Arndt , set to music by Friedrich Silcher. But there are also macabre spring songs , for example the “spring song ” (... Geh'mer pigeons poison in the park ) by Georg Kreisler .

Examples

Farewell to winter

• The winter has passed
• Goodbye winter, parting hurts
• So we drive out the winter
• Come on, dear Mai, and do it

Welcome spring

• Now Lenz wants to greet us
• Spring is approaching with showers
• The songs sound
• Trarira, spring is here

Joy of spring

• All the birds are already there
• Spring has arrived
• Everything is new in May
• the May has come

A satirized spring poem

• Pigeons poison in the park

Web links

• Folk songs archive spring songs

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neidhart von Reuenthal, 13th century [1]
2. ↑ Originally one of three "dance modes" based on motifs from Neidhart's summer song "Diu zît ist hie" [2]
3. ↑ Text 1776, Overbeck, Melodie 1791, Mozart, KV 596 [3]
4. ^ Text 1839 entitled Spring Song by Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, printed in his poems, Leipzig 1843. With folk tune and accompaniment by Marie Nathusius in Forty Children's Songs by Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Leipzig 1847. [4]
5. ^ Text 1835 Hoffmann von Fallersleben, melody since 1816 after Schätze ade [5]
6. ↑ from: Echtermeyer, Deutsche Gedichte. From the beginnings to the present. Redesigned by Benno von Wiese, August Babel Verlag, Düsseldorf 1962, without ISBN, p. 392
7. ↑ Schubert, Spring Faith , op. 20 (Three Songs) no. 2, D. 686 (1820) [6]
8. ↑ Spring Faith op. 9,8, cf. List of works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
9. ↑ Maifest , p. 178
10. ↑ Mailied [7]
11. ^ Text 1830, Melodie anonymous, Volksweise, recorded by Friedrich Silcher, 1830, with the title Spring [8]
12. ^ "Pigeons poison in the park", by Georg Kreisler