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Sheet Music: Carl Krebs, "Die süsse Bell", 1841 (Burns in Germany)
"Die süsse Bell". Gedichtet von dem Schotten Robert Burns. In Musik gesetzt Für eine Singstimme mit obligater Pianoforte-Begleitung und Fräulein Sophie Löwe Kön. Preuss. Kammersängerin zugeeignet von...
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Old German Songbooks, No. 14: Volkslieder-Album (1864)
Volkslieder-Album. Eine Sammlung ausgewählter Volkslieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Berlin, Trautwein, n. d. [1864]Download pdf (27 MB)This is a collection of some of the most...
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Old German Songbooks, No. 15: Gustav Damm & Robert Schwalm (published between...
Here are some songbooks I have recently found in antiquarian bookshops. They were all published between 1880 and 1900 and collections like these - for students respectively schools - with what was the...
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"Mein Herz ist im Hochland" - New Musical Settings By German Composers...
Among the most popular songs in Germany during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century was "Mein Herz ist im Hochland". This was an adaptation of Robert Burns'"My Heart's In The...
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Old German Songbooks, No. 16: Pflüger, Liederbuch für Schule und Leben...
Here are some more songbooks I have scanned. All are from the second half of the 19th century:J. G. F. Pflüger, Liederbuch für Schule und Leben, 3 Bde., Friedrich Gutsch, Karlsruhe, 1857/8I. Heft,...
View ArticleJames Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1745-1769) - What Is Available...
One of the most important and influential Scottish tune collections of the 18th century was James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, published in 12 volumes since circa 1745. Oswald (1710 - 1769),...
View ArticleLinks - The London Stage 1660-1800, Now Available Online
The best news recently was that The London Stage is now available online. This is a tremendous and immensely helpful resource compiled from contemporary sources like newspaper advertisements, playbills...
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Old German Songbooks, No. 17: Some More Songbooks For Schools (1879-1882)
W. Jütting & F. Billig, Liederbuch für die Mittel- und Oberklassen städtischer Volksschulen (auchgehobener Landschulen) und die unteren Klassen höherer Lehranstalten, Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior),...
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"Des Sommers letzte Rose" - Thomas Moore's "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" in...
At the moment I mostly interested in British songs that became popular in Germany during the 19th century. There were five of them that seem to have been particularly widespread. We can find them - as...
View ArticleOld German Songbooks, No. 18: Victorie Gervinus, Volksliederbuch (1896) And...
Victorie Gervinus, Volksliederbuch. 80 Volkslieder (deutsche, dänische, englische, französische, hebräische, indische, irische, italienische, maurische, persische, portugiesische, schottische,...
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"Long, Long Ago"&"Lang Ist's Her"
"Long, Long Ago", as song written by Thomas H. Bayly and first published in 1839, was immensely popular in Britain and North America during the 19th and early 20th century. In fact it is some kind of...
View Article"Ausländische Volkslieder" in 19th-Century Germany - Some Important...
During the 19th century German music fans were fascinated with songs from other countries, what was called "ausländische Volkslieder". Johann Gottfried Herder's famous and influential Stimmen der...
View Article"Ausländische Volkslieder" in 19th-Century Germany - Some Important...
Go back to Part 1 By all accounts neither Wolff's Braga nor Zuccalmaglio's and Baumstark's Bardale left a lasting impression. But the year 1835 also saw the publication of the first of four volumes of...
View ArticleThomas Moore's "Irish Melodies"&"Popular National Airs" - What is available...
These days I am working quite a lot with two of Thomas Moore's important and influential song collections: both the Irish Melodies and the Popular National Airs. It is always helpful to have these...
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Polymelos - Abbé Vogler's Collections of National Airs (1791/1806)
At the moment I am trying to make myself familiar with the work of the Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814), a composer, music educator, musicologist, organ designer and organ virtuoso - "Europas 1....
View ArticleSome Early Song Collections from Denmark & Norway - What is available online?
Recently I was researching some Danish and Norwegian tunes that I had found in German songbooks. Therefore I had to make myself familiar with the most important early collections of "folk-songs" from...
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"A Land That's Free..." - Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby"
One of the most touching and impressive songs in Irving Berlin's oeuvre is "Russian Lullaby", written in 1927 and first performed by Douglas Stanbury at the opening of Samuel Rothafels Roxy Theatre in...
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Thomas Moore's "Scottish" Songs
I am at the moment quite busy with Friedrich Silcher's collection Ausländische Volksmelodien, published in 4 booklets between 1835 and 1841 (available at the Internet Archive; see also this text in my...
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Between Burns & Moore: Friedrich Silcher's German Version of "My Love's Like...
I. "My Luve's like a red, red rose" is surely one of the most popular songs of Robert Burns. It was first published in 1794 in Pietro Urbani's A Selection of Scots Songs (Vol. 2, pp. 16-17) and is...
View ArticleThe Earl of Marischal And His Collection of International "National Airs" (1771)
In the first volume of Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder (1778) we can find an introductory collection of "Zeugnisse über Volkslieder" with quotes from, among others, Montaigne, Joseph Addison,...
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