Herr Goeli (or Göli) was a Middle High German minnesinger. Four of his poems survive. They are found under his name only in the Codex Manesse. In three other manuscripts—the Weingarten Manuscript and the Berlin and Frankfurt Neidhart manuscripts—they are mistakenly attributed to

Neidhart von Reuental Neidhart (Middle High German ) (later often called Neidhart von Reuental) was one of the most famous . With around 1500 documented strophes of his songs surviving, Neidhart has the largest corpus of surviving lyrics of any , suggesting the great ...

. In fact, they are deliberate imitations of the village songs (') of Neidhart. They are of inferior quality. Their

incipit The incipit () of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose. The word ''incipit'' comes from Latin and means "it beg ...

s are: *''Svmer der hat sin gezelt'' *''Willekomen svmer wetter svesse'' *''Wol gezieret stat diu gruene heide'' *''Wis willekomen nahtegal frowe'' Goeli is usually identified with Diethelm Goeli, a knight of Basel recorded in various sources between 1254 and 1276. Diethelm's wife's name was Sibilia. He was probably dead by 1280.

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* * * * {{Authority control 1270s deaths Musicians from Basel-Stadt 13th-century German poets German male poets Minnesingers