Fresh little German songs

Fresh teutsche Liedlein is a five-part song collection that was published from 1539–1556 by the doctor, composer and song collector Georg Forster (* around 1510 in Amberg; † November 12, 1568 in Nuremberg). It comprises 380 polyphonic, predominantly secular German songs. The collection was later given its collective name. It is the most extensive and most important song publication of the time and one of the most important sources for tenor songs (with the cantus firmus in the tenor , such as a version from Innsbruck, I must let you by Heinrich Isaac or Mir ist ein Rot Goldfingerlein by Ludwig Senfl represent).

Volumes

• An extract of good old and new Teutscher liedlein / of a right German kind / to use / except read on all kinds of instruments . Nuremberg 1539
  (2nd edition 1543; 3rd edition 1549 [title changed]; 4th edition 1552 [title changed]; 5th edition 1560/61)
• The other theyl kurtzweiliger good fresh Teutscher Liedlein to sing vastly funny . Nuremberg 1540
  (2nd edition 1549 [title changed]; 3rd edition 1553; 4th edition 1565)
• The third theyl beautiful, lovely old and new Teutscher Liedlein, not to sing alone but also to use all kinds of instruments ... and never seen before . Nuremberg 1549
  (2nd edition 1552 [title changed]; 3rd edition 1563)
• The Vierdt theyl beautiful, happy, fresh old and newer Teutscher Liedlein with four voices not only to sing but also to use on all instruments . Nuremberg 1556
• The fifth theyl beautiful old and newer Teutscher liedlein with five voices not to sing alone but also to use on all instruments . Nuremberg 1556

Selection of well-known songs from the collection

• Three leaves on a linden tree ( Jobst von Brandt )
• The forest is defoliated ( Thomas Stoltzer )
• There is a castle in Austria (Caspar Othmayr)
• A hunter wants to hunt
• In Mayen, in Mayen
• Innsbruck, I have to let you ( Heinrich Isaac )
• I am a fine brown Maidelein (Caspar Othmayr)
• Happiness and salvation are gone to me
• How beautifully the May blooms for us (Caspar Othmayr)
• We moved into the field
• Where should I go?
• Well up, well Gsell, from there (Caspar Othmayr)

expenditure

• Kurt Gudewill et al. (Ed.): Georg Forster: Fresh teutsche Liedlein (1539–1556) . (= The Legacy of German Music Volume 20; 60–63). Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1964–1997.
• M. Elizabeth Marriage (Ed.): Georg Forsters Fresh Teutsche Liedlein in five parts. Niemeyer, Halle 1903 ( archive.org ).

literature

• Kurt Gudewill :  Forster, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 303 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Georg Forsters Fresh Teutsche Liedlein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Digitization of the four part books of part 1 (signature: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - 4 Mus.pr. 167)
• Fresh German songs : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project