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" Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen" (Accept, O God, the gifts we bring) is the beginning of a Christian offertory hymn with German text by Raymund Weber, and a melody that Andrew Lloyd Webber composed for his musical Jesus Christ Superstar. The song, of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL), is part of German hymnals, including ...
"Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather.The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches.The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [3] but this has never been substantiated.
"Ach, wie ist's möglich dann" also known as "Treue Liebe" (True/Loyal Love), and “How Can I Leave Thee” is a German now-traditional song.Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810–1882), a German composer and conductor, claimed to have composed the tune, and that it was later modified "probably by Silcher" ("wahrscheinlich von Silcher her") and given the general name Thüringer Volkslied ...
"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.
"Answer Me" is a popular song, originally titled "Mütterlein", with German lyrics by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch. "Mütterlein" was published on 19 April 1952. English lyrics were written by Carl Sigman, and the song was published as "Answer Me" in New York on 13 October 1953. [1]
Schenkendorf dedicated the song to Friedrich Ludwig Jahn for the Holy Roman Empire. The melody was a slightly modified form of "Pour aller à la chasse faut être matineux", a French hunting song dating from 1724. The title also refers to a German hymn of the same name, written by the German poet Novalis in 1799. The first two lines of this ...
The text of "Dona nobis pacem" is a short prayer for peace from the Agnus Dei of the Latin mass.[1] [2] [3] In the round for three parts, it is sung twice in every line. [4]The melody has been passed orally. [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 ...