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"Ein Heller und ein Batzen", also known by its chorus of "Heidi, heido, heida", [1] (with all three words being modifications of the name Adelheid [2]) is a German folk song. Written by Albert von Schlippenbach in 1830 as a drinking song, it later became a popular marching song in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. [3] [4]
The lyrics of "Hänschen klein" tell in three stanzas of Hans, a boy who ventures from home into the world, leaving his bereft mother, and returns many years later to his family. In 1900, an abridged version in two stanzas by Otto Frömmel (1873–1940) became a nursery song for children to sing in kindergarten. Today, a single-verse form is ...
Pages in category "German folk songs" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Deutscher Liederhort; A.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder (German; "The boy's magic horn: old German songs") is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and published in Heidelberg, Baden. The book was published in three volumes, the first in 1805, followed by two more in 1808.
Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen is an interwar-era German marching song. Composed around the 1920s, the lyrics of the song are sourced from the poem Ich bin der arme Konrad [1] by the Bavarian poet and artillery officer Heinrich von Reder (1824–1909). The melody of the song is arranged by German songwriter and later National Socialist [2 ...
"Muss i denn" (German for "must I, then") is a German folk-style song in the Swabian German dialect that has passed into tradition. The present form dates back to 1827, when it was written and made public by Friedrich Silcher.
It followed the time's ideal of a simple art song in folk style.; he had written in 1782, in an article of the Musikalisches Kunstmagazin magazine, that it was the highest and most difficult objective of a composer to "make a song in true folk spirit" ("ein Lied in wahrem Volksinn zu machen "). His melody for the song, described as swinging and ...
The best-known and most widely used lyrics to the melody were written by German preacher and collector of folk songs August Zarnack. [2] [3] Zarnack's version was originally published under the title "Der schwere Traum" (The heavy dream), and appeared in Zarnack's 1820 book which was a collection of German folk songs intended for primary schools.