Key A major Text Heinrich Heine | Catalogue WAB 68 Language German | |
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Composed 1851 (1851): St. Florian Dedication Name-day of Aloisia Bogner | ||
Frühlingslied ("Spring song"), WAB 68, is a lied composed by Anton Bruckner in 1851 for the name-day of Aloisia Bogner.
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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 and music
Frühlingslied is based on a text by Heinrich Heine, with one minor change:
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 is a single recording of Frühlingslied: