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Nun Will Der Lenz Uns Grüßen
"" (Now Spring wants to greet us) is a spring song in German. The text was written by Karl Ströse as a free transcription of a medieval poem by Neidhart von Reuental. It was published with a shortened text and a different folk melody and a four-part setting by Gustav Weber in 1886 in Switzerland, giving Neidhart von Reuental as the author. This version became a popular Volkslied in German-speaking countries when the Wandervogel movement (1915) and the Jugendbewegung of the 1920s distributed it. It has remained popular. History Ströse published a poem collection in 1878, ''Deutsche Minne aus alter Zeit – ausgewählte Lieder der Minnesänger des Mittelalters'', presenting medieval poems in his free transcription. Three of the poems are by Neidhart von Reuental which Ströse entitled ''Tanzweisen'' (dancing songs), including "Diu zît ist hie" (The time is there) which he paraphrased as "". All three ''Tanzweisen'' were set to music by for voice and piano and published in Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkslied
Volkslied (literally: folk song) is a genre of popular songs in German which are traditionally sung. While many of them were first passed orally, several collections were published from the late 18th century. Later, some popular songs were also included in this classification. History The earliest songs in German appeared in the 12th century. Art songs were created by minstrels and meistersinger while cantastoria (''Bänkelsänger'') sang songs in public that were orally transmitted. Song collections were written from the late 15th century, such as ''Lochamer-Liederbuch'' and ''Glogauer Liederbuch''. Georg Forster (composer), Georg Forster's ''Frische teutsche Liedlein'' was first printed in 1536. In the period of Sturm und Drang, poets and authors became interested in that which they saw as simple, close to nature, original, and unspoiled (nach dem ). Johann Gottfried Herder coined the term 'Volkslied' in the late 18th century, and published ''Von deutscher Art und Kunst'' (On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Germany
West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic after its capital city of Bonn, or as the Second German Republic. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from 12 States of Germany, states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern Bloc, Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as the sole democratically reorganised continuation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Poems
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Discogs
Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''The New York Times'' as "Wikipedia-like". While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings. History Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo .... It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsches Volksliedarchiv
The Deutsche Volksliedarchiv, a research institute for Volkslied (folk song) in German, was founded in 1914 and was integrated into the University of Freiburg in 2014, now called Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (Centre of popular culture and music). It has extensive collections of traditional and popular songs, maintained and expanded in the new centre, and accessible to the public without restriction. Before 2014, it was independent scientific research institute of the state Baden-Württemberg, based in Freiburg im Breisgau. History The institution was founded in 1914 by the Germanist and folklorist John Meier (folklorist), John Meier, aiming to collect and document Volkslieder (folk songs) and to publish them in a scholarly complete edition. The publishing was successful for Ballade (forme fixe), ballades between 1935 and 1996. Meier's enterprise was scientifically advanced at the time, especially the recourse to the then still novel empirical methods (active collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Beyschlag
Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid'' (hypocorisms ''Sigge, Siffer''), Danish/Norwegian ''Sigfred''. In Norway, ''Sigfrid'' is given as a feminine name. official statistics at Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, https://www.ssb.no; Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, https://www.scb.se/ The name is medieval and was borne by the legendary dragon-slayer also known as . It did survive in marginal use into the modern period, but after 1876 it enjoyed renewed popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frühlingslied
Fruhlingslied may refer to Film *''Heidi und Ihre Freunde'' 1954 German film by Hans Albin also released as 'Frühlingslied' List of Italian films of 1954 Music *Frühlingslied (Mendelssohn), Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 6 in A major 'Spring Song' *"Frühlingslied", choral work by Carl Maria von Weber *"Frühlingslied", song by Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836) *"Frühlingslied", song by Alexander Zemlinsky *"Frühlingslied", song by Theodor Kirchner *"Frühlingslied", song by Charles Ives *"Frühlingslied", song by Brahms, to a poem by Geibel *"Frühlingslied", Lieder (Bruckner) 1851 to a text by Heinrich Heine *"Frühlingslied", song by Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ... to a minor poem by a schoolteacher Ferdinand Braun See also * Spring Song (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl August Fischer (Komponist)
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East Germany
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a Socialist state, socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The Economy of East Germany, economy of the country was Central planning, centrally planned and government-owned corporation, state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc. Before its establishment, the country's territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the Berlin Declaration (1945), Berlin Declaration abolishing German sovereignty in World War II. The Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet occupation zone in Germany, Soviet-occupied zone, bounded on the east b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nun Will Der Lenz Uns Grüßen
"" (Now Spring wants to greet us) is a spring song in German. The text was written by Karl Ströse as a free transcription of a medieval poem by Neidhart von Reuental. It was published with a shortened text and a different folk melody and a four-part setting by Gustav Weber in 1886 in Switzerland, giving Neidhart von Reuental as the author. This version became a popular Volkslied in German-speaking countries when the Wandervogel movement (1915) and the Jugendbewegung of the 1920s distributed it. It has remained popular. History Ströse published a poem collection in 1878, ''Deutsche Minne aus alter Zeit – ausgewählte Lieder der Minnesänger des Mittelalters'', presenting medieval poems in his free transcription. Three of the poems are by Neidhart von Reuental which Ströse entitled ''Tanzweisen'' (dancing songs), including "Diu zît ist hie" (The time is there) which he paraphrased as "". All three ''Tanzweisen'' were set to music by for voice and piano and published in Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmus
"Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", known simply as "Wilhelmus", or written with the article as "Het Wilhelmus", is the national anthem of both the Netherlands and its sovereign state, the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It dates back to at least 1572, making it the oldest national anthem in use today, provided that the latter is defined as consisting of both a melody and lyrics. Although "Wilhelmus" was not recognized as the official national anthem until 1932, it has always been popular with parts of the Dutch population and resurfaced on several occasions in the course of Dutch history before gaining its present status. It was also the anthem of the Netherlands Antilles from 1954 to 1964. The name is derived from its first word, which is the Latinization of the Germanic name Wilhelm (the English version is William), used for official records during that time in Dutch speaking lands or when considering the entire first line which is how the anthem is also referred to, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
