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1851 lied composed by Anton Bruckner

Frühlingslied
Lied by Anton Bruckner
Spring Flowers by Ludwig Knaus
Key	A major
Catalogue	WAB 68
Text	Heinrich Heine
Language	German
Composed	1851 (1851): St. Florian
Dedication	Name-day of Aloisia Bogner
Vocal	Solo voice
Instrumental	Piano

Frühlingslied ("Spring song"), WAB 68, is a lied composed by Anton Bruckner in 1851 for the name-day of Aloisia Bogner.

History

Bruckner composed the lied on a text of Heinrich Heine in 1851 for "the name-day of a blossoming spring rose" (dem Nahmensfeste einer auflblühenden Frühlingsrose), Bruckner's 16-year old pupil Aloisia Bogner, for whom he also composed Der Mondabend and the piano works Lancier-Quadrille, WAB 120, and Steiermärker, WAB 122.

The manuscript is stored in the archive of the Oberösterreichisches Landmuseum of Linz. The lied, which was first published in Band II/2, pp. 44–46 of the Göllerich/Auer biography, is issued in Band XXIII/1, No. 1 of the Gesamtausgabe.

Text

Frühlingslied is based on a text by Heinrich Heine, with one minor change:

Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt
Liebliches Geläute.
Klinge, kleine Frühlingslied,
Kling hinaus ins Weite.

Kling hinaus bis an sein Haus,
Wo die Blumen sprießen,
Wenn du eine Rose schaust,
Sag, ich lass' dich grüßen.

Lovely chimes draw softly
Into my soul.
Ring, little spring song,
Ring out far away.

Ring out to his house,
Where the flowers sprout,
When you see a rose,
Say: "I let greet you".

Music

The 24-bar long work in A major is scored for solo voice and piano. This easy composition displays no relationship with Mendelssohn's Frühlingslied. The voice score is conducted cantabile, and the piano accompaniment uses a continuous figuration.

Discography

There are two recordings of Frühlingslied:

Robert Holzer (bass), Thomas Kerbl (piano), Anton Bruckner Lieder/Magnificat – CD: LIVA 046, 2011. NB: Transposed in F major.
Elisabeth Wimmer (soprano), Daniel Linton-France (piano) in "Bruckner, Anton – Böck liest Bruckner I" – CD – Gramola 99195, 3 October 2018

References

The 16-year old Aloisia Bogner, alias Louise or Luise Bogner, was the older daughter of Michaël Bogner, by whom Bruckner had his living accommodation.
^ C. van Zwol, pp. 715-716
^ U. Harten, p. 151
C. Howie, Chapter II, p. 29
C. van Zwol, pp. 61-62
Gesamtausgabe – Lieder für Gesang und Klavier
Can also be heard on YouTube: A. Bruckner - Frühlingslied

Sources

August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/1: Lieder für Gesang und Klavier (1851–1882), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky (Editor), Vienna, 1997
Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
Uwe Harten, Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. Residenz Verlag [de], Salzburg, 1996. ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.
Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography, online revised edition

External links

Frühlingslied, WAB 68: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Frühlingslied A-Dur, 1851 - WAB 68 – Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)
Heine's original text with an English translation is available on The LiederNet Archive: Sweet chimes are softly filling my soul
Ruediger Buell, Ulrike Zeitler (piano) - Frühlingslied, WAB 68, October 2024: Frühlingslied, WAB 68, and Im April, WAB 75

Anton Bruckner

List of compositions

Symphonies

Symphonies (1863–1896)
Symphony in F minor (1863)
No. 1 in C minor (1866/1891)
Symphony in D minor (1869)
No. 2 in C minor (1872/1877)
No. 3 in D minor (1873/1877/1889)
No. 4 in E♭ major (Romantic; 1874/1878–1880/1888)
No. 5 in B♭ major (1876)
No. 6 in A major (1881)
No. 7 in E major (1883)
No. 8 in C minor (1887/1890)
No. 9 in D minor (1896) (unfinished)

Other orchestral

Sacred works

Masses	Masses (1842–1868) Windhaager Messe (1842) Kronstorfer Messe (1843) Messe für den Gründonnerstag (1844–1845) Requiem in D minor (1849) Missa solemnis (1854) Mass No. 1 in D minor (1864) Mass No. 2 in E minor (1866/1882) Mass No. 3 in F minor (1868/1883/1893)
Cantatas	Psalm settings (1852–1892) Psalm 114 (1852) Magnificat (1852) Psalm 22 (c. 1852) Psalm 146 (c. 1856) Festive Cantata: Preiset den Herrn (1862) Psalm 112 (1863) Te Deum (1881–1884) Psalm 150 (1892)
Motets	Motets (c. 1835–1892) Pange lingua (c. 1835/1891) Libera me (c. 1843) Asperges me (1843–1844) Two Asperges me (1844–1845) Tantum ergo (1845) Tantum ergo (1845–1846) Dir, Herr, dir will ich mich ergeben (c. 1845) O Du liebes Jesu-Kind (1845–1846) Herz Jesu-Lied (1845–1846) Four Tantum ergo (1846/1888) Tantum ergo (1846/1888) In jener letzten der Nächte (c. 1848) Two Totenlieder (1852) Libera me (1854) Tantum ergo (c. 1854) Ave Maria (1856) Ave Maria (1861) Afferentur regi (1861) Pange lingua (1868) Inveni David (1868) Iam lucis orto sidere (1868/1886) Locus iste (1869) Christus factus est (1873) Tota pulchra es (1878) Os justi (1879) Ave Maria (1882) Christus factus est (1884) Salvum fac populum tuum (1884) Veni Creator Spiritus (c. 1884) Ecce sacerdos magnus (1885) Virga Jesse (1885) Ave Regina caelorum (c. 1886) Vexilla regis (1892)
Other works	Organ works (1835–1890) Two Aequali (1847)

Secular vocal

Cantatas	Cantatas (1845–1893) Vergißmeinnicht (1845) Entsagen (c. 1851) Arneth Cantata: Heil Vater! Dir zum hohen Feste (1852) Mayer Cantata: Auf Brüder! auf (1855) Festgesang: Sankt Jodok sproß (1855) Germanenzug (1865) Helgoland (1893)
Lieder	Lieder (1850–1882) Der Mondabend (c. 1850) Frühlingslied (1851) Wie bist du, Frühling, gut und treu (1856) Herbstkummer (1864) Im April (c. 1865) Mein Herz und deine Stimme (1868) Volkslied (1882)
Choral works	Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893) An dem Feste (1843) Das Lied vom deutschen Vaterland (c. 1845) Ständchen (c. 1846) Der Lehrerstand (c. 1847) Sternschnuppen (c. 1848) Das edle Herz (c. 1851) Die Geburt (1852) Vor Arneths Grab (1854) Laßt Jubeltöne laut erklingen (1854) Des Dankes Wort sei mir vergönnt (at the latest 1855) Das edle Herz (1857) Am Grabe (1861) Du bist wie eine Blume (1861) Der Abendhimmel (1862) Herbstlied (1864) Um Mitternacht (1864) Trauungschor (1865) Der Abendhimmel (1866) Vaterlandslied (1866) Vaterländisch Weinlied (1866) Mitternacht (1869) Nachruf (1877) Das hohe Lied (1876–1879) Abendzauber (1878) Zur Vermählungsfeier (1878) Sängerbund (1882) Volkslied (1882) Trösterin Musik (1886) Um Mitternacht (1886) Träumen und Wachen (1890) Der deutsche Gesang (1892) Tafellied (1893)

Chamber

Piano works (1850–1868)
Chamber music (1862–1879)
String Quartet (1862)
Rondo in C minor (1862)
Abendklänge (1866)
String Quintet (1879)
Intermezzo in D minor (1879)

Category

v t e Heinrich Heine
Poems	"On Wings of Song" (1827) "Die Lotosblume" (1840) "The Silesian Weavers" (1844) "Germany. A Winter's Tale" (1844)
Other works	Die Harzreise (1826)
Adaptations	"Der Doppelgänger" (1828) "Dichterliebe" (1840) Liederkreis, Op. 24 (1840) Frühlingslied, WAB 68 (1851) "Du bist wie eine Blume, WAB 64" (1861) William Ratcliff (1869) Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895) Deaf to Our Prayers (2006)
Other	The Gaze of the Gorgon Schwanengesang Lisztomania Der fliegende Holländer
Family	Gustav Heine von Geldern (brother) Maximilian Meyer Heine (brother) Salomon Heine (uncle/patron) Armand Heine (cousin) Michel Heine (cousin) Alice Heine (distant cousin) Robert von Heine-Geldern (grandnephew) Simon von Geldern (great uncle) Karl Marx (third cousin once removed)

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