Snowflake whitedress

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The nursery rhyme snowflake, white skirt is a winter song . Since it appears again and again in Christmas song collections and is often sung in Advent , it is often referred to as a Christmas carol . Often the song is referred to as " folk tune " and the text as "popular" - which means that the name of the author is not known. In this case, however, the origin of the song can be traced. The original version comes from Hedwig Haberkern (née Stenzel; 1837–1901), who was first a kindergarten teacher and then a teacher in Breslau . As "Aunt Hedwig" she wrote stories for children; In 1869, in her first work, Tante Hedwig's Stories for Little Children, the story of the snow cloud appeared , in which the song snowflake from heaven appears.

Text versions

Original text Common text today

Snowflake, from the sky
There you come snowed,
you were in the cloud,
your way is far;
Oh, sit down at the window,
you cute star,
give leaves and flowers,
we like to see you!


Snowflake, oh cover
the seeds
quickly , they freeze, you warm them,
so the child asks.
Snowflake, white skirt
So come everyone ,
Then soon a snowman will be,
Then I'll throw the ball.

Snowflake, white skirt,
when do you come snowed?
You live in the clouds,
your way is so far.

Come sit by the window,
you lovely star,
paint flowers and leaves,
we like you.

Snowflake, you cover the little
flowers for us ,
then they sleep safely
in heavenly peace.

Snowflakes, white skirts,
come to us in the valley.
Then we build the snowman
and throw the ball.

Compared to the original text, which consists of two stanzas of eight lines each, the text is now usually reproduced in four four-line stanzas. White skirt , a Silesian synonym for snowflake, does not appear in the original version of the text in the opening verse, but only in the fourth from the last line.

melody

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According to the poet's will, the song should be sung to the melody of the song We children, we have so much joys . The text of this song by Christian Adolph Overbeck was first published in the Vossischer Musen-Almanach for the year 1777. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart set the revised text to music in 1791 as a song for voice and piano Das Kinderspiel , KV 598. Carl Christian Agthe published another setting in 1782. Whether Hedwig Haberkern wanted Mozart's melody for her snowflake song cannot therefore be said with absolute certainty. Since the two well-known settings are art songs , which are melodically and rhythmically more demanding than a simple children's song, it is also conceivable that Hedwig Haberkern knew another, more folksong-like melody.

The melody widespread today, the composer of which is unknown, has been recorded in song books since 1915. In the first half of the 20th century, however, the song was spread on several different melodies. It was sung to the melody of Im Märzen der Bauer and to compositions by Johann André and Kurt Schläger. At the latest after the end of the Second World War, the melody known today prevailed. Occasionally - but only in songbooks from the post-war period - the source can be found that the song was brought from Russia or Courland by German colonists .

literature

  • Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): The song source . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 721 f .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c [anonymous]: Aunt Hedwig's stories for small children. A book for narrative mothers, kindergarten teachers and young readers. With six colorful pictures by Louise Thalheim. Eduard Trewendt, Breslau 1869, pp. 1–13, here pp. 3–4.
  2. ↑ Johann Heinrich Voß : Poetic flower picking for the year 1777. Bohn, Hamburg 1777, pp. 51–54 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Das Kinderspiel KV 598 : Score and critical report in the New Mozart Edition
  4. ^ WA Mozart: The children's game on YouTube , sung by Erika Köth
  5. ^ Carl Christian Agthe: Songs of an easy and flowing song for the piano. Ballenstedt 1782, p. 22 f. ( LLB Detmold ).
  6. ↑ Ferdinand Hirt (Ed.): Songbook for elementary schools - 1st issue, lower level. Königliche Universitäts- und Verlagsbuchhandlung, Breslau 1915, p. 28. Retrieved from http://deutscheslied.com
  7. ↑ DC Först, W. Suhr (Ed.): Liederbuch für Niedersachsen - Issue 1. Verlag von Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel 1915 (4th edition 1922), p. 41. Retrieved from http://deutscheslied.com
  8. ^ Raimund Heulers (ed.): Singing book for higher girls' schools, 1st part. Verlag der Friedrich Kornschen Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1917, p. 95. Retrieved from http://deutscheslied.com
  9. ↑ a b c Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): Der Liederquell . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 721 f .
  10. ↑ It is currently not known whether this is Johann André (1741–1799).
  11. ↑ Else Fromm (Ed.): Songs and movement games. Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus l (Berlin Association for Public Education). 7th edition. BG Teubner, Berlin and Leipzig 1922, p. 18. Retrieved from https://www.volksliederarchiv.de/schneefloeckchen-weissroeckchen/ and http://deutscheslied.com
  12. ↑ Heiner Wolf (ed.): Our happy companion. Extended new edition. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1964, p. 351.
  13. ^ Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund (Ed.): Songbook for Schleswig-Holstein. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1965, p. 338. Retrieved from http://deutscheslied.com
  14. ↑ Songs for Christmas - special edition for the working group for the care of German songs. Kommissionsverlag Möseler / Wolfenbüttel o. J. Retrieved from http://deutscheslied.com