Key G major Text Oskar von Redwitz Dedication Friedrich Mayer | Catalogue WAB 58 Language German | |
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Composed 1856 (1856): St. Florian | ||
Wie bist du, Frühling, gut und treu ("Springtime, how good and faithful you are"), WAB 58 is a lied composed by Anton Bruckner in 1856 on a text of Oskar von Redwitz.
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History
Bruckner composed the lied on five strophes of Oskar von Redwitz' Amaranths Waldeslieder. He dedicated the work to Friedrich Mayer, prelate of the St. Florian Abbey.
Two original manuscripts are stored in the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek and by the editor Anton Böhn & Sohn in Augsburg. The lied was first published in 1902 by Max Marschalk in Die Musik, Band 1, No. 17. The first public performance occurred during a concert of the Wiener Akademischer Wagner-Verein on 5 February 1903 by Gisella Seehofer, who then also premiered Bruckner's Ave Maria, WAB 7 and Im April.
In 1930, a facsimile of it was published in Band III/2, pp. 184-188 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. The song is issued in Band XXIII/1, No. 2 of the Gesamtausgabe.
Text and music
The song uses strophes 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9 of Oskar von Redwitz' Amaranths Waldeslieder.
The 102-bar long work in G major is scored for solo voice and piano.
Discography
There is a single recording of Wie bist du Frühling, gut und treu: