Cheerful herbarium

Cheerful Herbarium - Flowers and Verses is a volume of poetry by Karl Heinrich Waggerl , first published in 1950 by the Otto Müller Verlag in Salzburg , which was extremely successful in the poetry genre .

Waggerl rhymed verses and smaller poems with watercolors of different types of flowers in the volume .

After the volume was published over 200,000 times at the end of the 1950s, it was already considered by many to be one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the German language. In 1981 the work that Waggerl himself illustrated even exceeded half a million copies. The flowers and verses are now likely to have sold well over 600,000 times.

The composer Franz Salmhofer set the volume to music soon after its publication. The work was then interpreted on records at the end of the 1950s by the famous opera singer Julius Patzak .

The second composer to be named is Erich Robert Sorge , who set the poems to music as choral movements in 1955. The Heinrichshofen publishing house published the sentences, and WDR recorded and broadcast them in the 1960s.

Another setting was made in 1959 by Leopold Katt. There is a music book for four-part choir (SATB) from the Möseler Wolfenbüttel publishing house with the parts "Crocus, centaury, cowslip, rattling pot, Noli me tangere, quivering grass, dead nettle and saxifrage".

literature

Karl Heinrich Waggerl, cheerful herbarium, flowers and verses. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1950, 19th and 20th edition, 181th - 200th thousand.