tomorrow Santa Claus is Coming

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Tomorrow Santa Claus is a German Christmas carol with a text by Hoffmann von Fallersleben written in 1835 and the melody of the French folk song Ah! vous dirai-je, maman .

text

Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874) wrote the text of the song under the title Santa Claus 1835. It first appeared in print in Adelbert von Chamisso's Deutscher Musenalmanach for the year 1837.

The original text:

Tomorrow Santa Claus comes ,
comes with his gifts.
Drum , pipe and rifle ,
flag and saber and more,
yes a whole war army ,
I would like to have.

Bring us, dear Santa Claus,
bring tomorrow too, bring
musketeer and grenadier ,
shaggy bear and panther animal,
horse and donkey, sheep and bull,
lots of beautiful things.

But you know our wish, you know
our hearts.
Children, father and mother,
even grandpa,
everyone, we are all there,
waiting for you with pain.

A widespread repositioning in which the lines with the war toy were removed comes from Hilger Schallehn :

In the GDR , a text adaptation by Hans Sandig ("Text: Hans Sandig (after Hoffmann von Fallersleben)"), which was always marked as such, was sung, which differed from both versions. This is still widespread today by transferring vinyl records to audio CDs .

melody

In 1837 Fallersleben's text with a melody by Ernst Heinrich Leopold Richter appeared in his collection of songs for lessons and again in 1843 in Hoffmann's Fifty Children's Songs with the same melody, which did not catch on.

The melody common today comes from the French song Ah! vous dirai-je, maman (proven since approx. 1761), which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used as the basis for his piano variations KV 265 .

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literature

  • Franz Xaver Erni, Heinz Alexander Erni: Silent Night, Holy Night. The most beautiful Christmas carols. Herder, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-451-27859-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Our folk songs. Third edition. With continuation and supplements. Engelmann, Leipzig 1869, p. 105 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Fallersleben Archive
  3. ↑ Adelbert von Chamisso (ed.): Deutscher Musenalmanach for the year 1837 (= vol. 8). Weidmann, Leipzig 1837, p. 294 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Franz Magnus Böhme : Popular songs of the Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1895, p. 475 f. ( Digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dbub_gb_YrwTAAAAQAAJ~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn499~ double-sided%3Dja~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  5. ↑ In: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of Christmas carols. 11th edition. Schott, Mainz 2004 (1982), ISBN 3-254-08213-3 .
  6. ↑ Ernst Richter: Classically organized collection of one, two, three and four-part movements, songs, canons and chorales. First department. Cranz, Breslau 1837, p. 15 ( excerpt online )
  7. ↑ Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Fifty children's songs. According to original and well-known tunes with piano accompaniment by Ernst Richter. Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1843, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ James J. Fuld: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star . In: Book of World-Famous Music . 5th edition. Dover Publications, Inc., New York 2000, ISBN 0-486-41475-2 , pp. 593 f . ( google.de ).
  9. ↑ Silke Leopold (Ed.): Mozart Handbook. Metzler-Verlag and Bärenreiter-Verlag, Stuttgart and Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-476-02077-0 .
  10. ^ Arnold Werner-Jensen: Music leader Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Volume 1: Instrumental Music. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010359-2 .