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"The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the
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-sticks", i.e.
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es) is a literary
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by Danish poet and author
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consist ...
. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media, including animated, live-action, and VR films as well as television musicals.


Summary

On a freezing New Year's Eve, a poor young girl, shivering and barefoot, tries to sell matches in the street. Afraid to go home because her father would beat her for failing to sell any matches, she huddles in the alley between two houses and lights matches, one by one, to warm herself. However, the girl is ignored by passersby as no one buys from her, leaving her to suffer alone in the cold weather. In the flame of the matches, she sees a series of comforting visions: the warm iron stove, the lovely roast goose, the great glorious Christmas tree. Each vision disappears as its match burns out. In the sky she sees a
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, which her late
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had told her means someone is on their way to
Heaven Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...
. In the flame of the next match she sees her late grandmother, the only person that ever treated her with love and kindness. To keep the vision of her grandmother alive as long as possible, the girl lights the entire bundle of matches. When the matches are gone, the girl freezes to death, and her grandmother carries her soul to Heaven. The next morning, passers-by find the girl's body with a smile on her face, and express pity. They do not know about the wonderful visions she had seen or how happy she is with her grandmother in Heaven.


Publication

"The Little Match Girl" was first published in December 1845, in ''Dansk Folkekalender for 1846''. The work was re-published as a part of ''New Fairy Tales'' (4 March 1848), Second Volume, Second Collection (''Nye Eventyr'' (1848), Andet Bind, Anden Samling), and again 18 December 1849 as a part of ''Fairy Tales'' (1850; ''Eventyr''). The work was also published 30 March 1863 as a part of ''Fairy Tales and Stories'' (1863), Second Volume (''Eventyr og Historier'' (1863), Andet Bind).


Adaptations


Amusement park attractions

* The
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(''Sprookjesbos'' in
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) of the
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in the Netherlands has a three-dimensional attraction showing the story of the Little Match Girl, called ''Het Meisje met de Zwavelstokjes''. In this attraction, use is made of the
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technique.


Anime and manga

* The 52nd and final episode of '' Andersen Monogatari'' (1971) is based on the story. * In the episode 307 of '' Crayon Shin-chan'', "Nene-chan is the Tragedy Heroine" (1999), the story inspires Nene-chan to play the
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game with her friends. * In ''Hello Kitty's Animation Theater'' an episode is an adaptation of this tale, complete with its grim ending. * In ''
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'', Sharo starts daydreaming while handing out flyers, humorously seeing it as a death flag when she connects her actions to the match girl. * Chapter 18 of the manga series '' Binbou Shimai Monogatari'' (2004) replays the tale of "The Little Match Girl", featuring the protagonists Asu and Kyou with a happy ending twist. * In Chapter 24 (Volume 3) of ''
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'', Su makes Shinobu dress up as a
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type and sell matches to raise some travelling money to
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. When that plot initially fails and Shinobu starts to cry, a good number of passers-by are moved to tears and prepare to buy all her matches until the two girls are chased off by resident
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. * In the Japanese anime ''
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'', the main character,
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puts on a play about The Little Match Girl to earn money. * Episode 201 of ''
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'', "Everybody's a Santa", parodies The Little Match Girl, where Yagyu Kyubei narrates a humorous retelling of the story, featuring
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as the eponymous title character, replacing match-sticks with
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, a human punching bag. * "Girl Who Doesn't Sell Matches But is Misfortunate Anyway" is the final episode of the 2010 anime series '' Ōkami-san'', which draws inspiration from various fairy tales. The episode features a character called Machiko Himura, who is based on the little match girl. * "The Little Key Frames Girl", episode 11 of the anime '' Shirobako'' (2014), humorously replays the whole match girl story from a more modern and lower stakes point of view. * In "Christmas Osomatsu-san", episode 11 of the anime ''
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'' (2015), Iyami humorously acts as The Little Match Girl, dying in the end. * ''Match Shoujo'', a manga by Sanami Suzuki (2014–15), is being made into a live-action film starring
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, as the title character. * In "Let's Get Wiggy With It", episode 2 of the anime ''
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'' (2003–05), Don Patch humorously recites a story of him selling churros at Christmas time with no one buying, showing a Churro buried and covered in snow in the end, resembling death. * In "Troupe Dragon, On Stage! (They Had a Troupe Name, Huh)", episode 10 of the anime ''
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'' (2017), the main characters decide to stage a performance of "The Little Match Girl" for a nursing home on Christmas. Throughout the episode, the characters add their own ideas to the story (such as
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s and the
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), to the point that the performance bears virtually no resemblance to the original. * In '' YuruYuri'' Season 3 episode 10, Akari and Kyoko light matches to keep themselves warm when the Kotatsu does not work. They see visions of shaved ice and a turkey dinner. They both survive however. * The cover art for chapter 43 (vol. 3) of '' Komi-san wa, Komyushou Desu.'' features Komi-san dressed up as the little match girl in a snowy street holding a lit match. * ''
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'' cover story from chapter 247 shows former king Wapol, at that point a beggar, selling matches in a snowy street with the subtitles "I'm the little match girl". * In '' Isekai Quartet'' season 2 episode 11 "It Begins! School Festival", Yunyun (a recurring character originally from ''
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'' whose running joke is that she is always alone) acts out a play version of the story solo. * In '' Flint the Time Detective'' the main characters visit Hans Christian Andersen who is trapped in his own dreams and having his own creations acting oddly. Among them, the Little Match Girls is selling watches instead of matches. *In episode 7 of the '' Nekopara'' OVA, the catgirls recount various fairy tales. Among them, is a retelling of The Little Match Girl by Maple — starring instead Cinnamon as the titular character — which is restructured in parodic fashion. Namely, Cinnamon instead visualizes sensual fantasies rather than the idyllic visions found in the original telling. In season 4 episode 6 of Date a Live, while in the fairy tale world Kotori is based on the Little Match Girl.


Audio recordings

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reads "The Match Girl" on Side B of ''Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales'' ( Golden Records, 1962), later re-issued on CD as part of ''Danny Kaye Re-tells Grimm's & Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales'' (Golden Records, 2008) * The record "Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol" published by
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features a reading on the B side. * The Myths and Legends Podcast featured the Little Match Girl story in a 2020 episode centering on
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consist ...
's fairy tales.


Comics

* In issue #112 of
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's '' Fables'' (a
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series about living embodiments of storybook characters), The Little Match Girl is introduced to Rose Red as one of the paladins of the embodiment of Hope, ostensibly on the night that the girl is doomed to die (Christmas Eve, in this telling). The child identifies herself as "the caretaker of hope deferred", braving the deadly cold and saving the meager pennies she earns towards the promise of a better life in the future, and stubbornly denying that her death is close at hand. * A Chick Tract "Somebody Loves Me" is a version of this story.


Films


16mm short subject films

* In 1954,
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released a 16 mm English language version of a 1952
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French short live-action film. Instead of her grandmother, the
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, whom the match girl believes is her own long-lost mother, takes the girl to Heaven. No mention is made of the father beating the child.


Animated films

* ''
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'' (1937), a Charles Mintz studio color cartoon adaptation set in 1930s
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, directed by Arthur Davis and Sid Marcus, and considered among the studio's best films. It was nominated for the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), though it lost to
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's short ''
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''. This version of the story is slightly different from Andersen's story, specifically near the end. * ''La Tartelette'' (1967), a Jacques Colombat short film inspired by Andersen's story, with a black humour twist ending. * ''Hans Christian Andersen no Sekai'' (1971, ''
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''),
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's animated film based on Andersen's works. * In the 1978 animated adaptation of "The Stingiest Man In Town", the character of
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is seen passing by a caricature of the little match girl. Her first appearance during the musical number "The Stingiest Man in Town" shows Scrooge "buying" two packs of matches from her, only to pay her with a button from his coat and go on his way laughing at her expense, leaving her bewildered. Her second, and final, appearance in the special is in the musical number "Mankind Should Be My Business", it shows her shivering from the cold and a now-reformed Scrooge giving her his coat and a handful of gold coins. * ''The Little Match Girl'' (2003), an animated short film by Junho Chung for Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film. * "The Little Match Girl" (2005),
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' adaptation released in '' Hello Kitty Animation Theater, Vol. 3''. * ''
The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the sulphur-sticks", i.e. matches) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dre ...
'' (2006), the last of four
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shorts originally intended to be part of a '' Fantasia (2006)'' compilation film, which project was canceled. This short was then developed as a stand-alone film and was nominated for the 2006
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, losing to '' The Danish Poet''. This short was subsequently released as a special feature on the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD of ''
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'' (1989). In 2015, the short was released on the ''Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection''
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and is now streaming on
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. * "Allumette" (2016) by
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Released as a free VR animated film for PS4 and PC. * ''Emily the Little Match Girl'' (2021), directed by Matthew Hickinbottom, is a CGI film based on the Andersen story released in the UK on 29 November 2021, with the voices of David Bradley as "Harry the Match Maker", Lesley Joseph as "Grandma", Lisa Armytage as "The Narrator" and Megan Sadler as the title character.


Live-action films

* ''
The Little Match Seller ''The Little Match Seller'' is a 1902 British short silent drama film, directed by James Williamson, retelling the classic 1845 Hans Christian Andersen fable of the sad life and tragic death of a little match seller. This major fiction film ...
'' (1902), a short silent film directed by James Williamson * ''
The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the sulphur-sticks", i.e. matches) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dre ...
'' (1914), a 9 minute long silent film directed by
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. * ''
The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the sulphur-sticks", i.e. matches) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dre ...
'' (1928), ''La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes''), a 40-minute silent film by
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. * ''La Jeune Fille aux Allumettes'' (1952), French director Jean Benoît-Lévy's film version, includes a brief dance sequence with ballet star Janine Charrat. * ''Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne'' (1953), Danish film director
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adapted the Andersen story to a short film, starring
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,
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, and Agnes Thorberg Wieth. The film competed for the short film prize of the
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. * ''
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'' (1998; ''Little Rose Selling Girl''), directed by
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, is a Colombian movie about
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children victims of
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, loosely based on "The Little Match Girl"; it competed for the
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at the
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. * ''
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl ''Resurrection of the Little Match Girl'' () is a 2002 South Korean action film. It was screened at the 2003 London Film Festival and was the opening film of the Fantasia Festival that same year. The film was inspired by the 1845 Hans Christian A ...
'' (2003) is a Korean movie. * ''
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'' (2015), a modern adaptation short film set in the UK, was produced and directed by Joann Randles. * ''Match Shojo'' (2016), a Japanese adaptation of Sanami Suzuki's manga starring
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.


Games

* '' Suikoden III'', (2002), a video game for the PlayStation 2, contains a highly abridged play version of "The Little Match Girl". In the game, the player can cast characters in different roles and have them perform a shortened version of the story. * ''
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'', (2012), a video game for the PlayStation 3 has a substory named "The Little Match Girl" during Taiga Saejima's segment of the game that involves a little girl selling matches for 100 yen. A similar substory also appears in
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(2005) and its remake,
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(2016). * ''The Little Match Girl'', (2015), a visual novel for web browsers and Android that tells the story. * In '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine'', the "Girl Who Sells Flint", tired of seeing that no one buys her flint, starts selling tobacco, various alcoholic beverages and even drugs, stating that "it is much more profitable and demand is high". * '' THE iDOLM@STER 2'', (2011), a video game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, has a song titled "Little Match Girl" available in the first DLC pack for the Xbox 360 version and available by default in the PlayStation 3 version. The song features a romanticized version of the story. The song has made further appearances in ''THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA'', ''THE iDOLM@STER ONE FOR ALL'', and in the 2011 anime adaptation of the series. * " QURARE Magic Library", (2014), a Korean mobile game that's also been imported to the PlayStation 4 to the west. There is a Kodex card in game called "Little Match Girl" which is a Super Rare + card and features the passive Resurrect V skill for Tank decks. The image is drawn by STUDIO NCG, and its description is very different from the original story, with a much darker ending. * " Dark Parables: The Match Girl`s Lost Paradise", (2018), a fifteenth installment of the Dark Parables franchise. The story involved unexplained fires known as The Flame of Illusion has occurred in Stars Hollow. The recent one involved a rich landowner who was caught in his own home, leaving no traces of bodies or fires anywhere. However, a young girl selling matches was the only solid clue. You, the Fairytale Detective, must stop these fires and the Match Girl.


Literature

* Anne Bishop published the short story " Match Girl" in ''
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'' (1995). * On page 319 of
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' book '' Women Who Run with the Wolves'' (1992), "The Little Match Girl", the author tells the story to her aunt, followed by a lucid analysis. * In
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's novella ''
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'' (2004), the main characters view a set of three plays, one of which is a stage adaptation of the "Little Match Girl". * Novelist
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read a short story based on "The Little Match Girl" over the air on
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. He later expanded the short story into a novel, published as '' Matchless: A Christmas Story'' (2009). *
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retold "The Little Match Girl" in a poem.McGonagall, William
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wrote an adaption of the story setting it in the early twentieth century. *
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's ''
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'' novel ''
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'' (1996) gave the story a less morbid ending, thanks to the intervention of
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himself: Death's manservant, Albert, notes that the tale of the little match girl is meant to remind people that they could be worse off even when completely penniless, but with Death currently acting as the Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of
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) to compensate for the original's absence, he is able to use his current dual status to give the little match girl a gift of a future. * Hans Tseng adapted "The Little Match Girl" into a short story
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, featured in the first volume of
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's '' Rising Stars of Manga'' (2003). * In
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's novel ''Breadcrumbs'' (2011), the main character Hazel meets in the woods a character based on the Little Match Girl. * "The Little Match Girl" was one of the key inspirations for the main character Rosemary in Michael Sajdak's novelette ''Voices of the Dead'' (2017).


Music

* In 1989, Stephen DeCesare composed a song about the famous story and in 2019 re-released it for choral and/or vocal duets. * In 1994,
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released the album ''The Song Is a Fairytale'', of songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales, with
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and
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amongst others. "The Little Match Girl" is one of the songs. * In 1988–96, the German
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composer
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wrote an opera based on the story, called ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'', also including a text by
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founder
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. * In 1995, German singer
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included the song "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" in her album Noctambule. * In 1996, Taiwanese singer
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included the song "Matchstick Heaven (火柴天堂)" in his album. The song was based on the story and was composed by Taiwanese singer/songwriter Panda Hsiung. *In 2001, guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors released the album ''The Little Match Girl'' based on the story. * In 2001, the Hungarian band Tormentor wrote the song "The Little Match Girl," with lyrics based on the story. * In 2002, GrooveLily released the album '' Striking 12'', a musical based on "The Little Match Girl", which subsequently opened
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in 2006. * In 2005,
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's music video of their song " Breathe" was a modern adaptation of the story. * In 2006, the English band
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and a string trio released the album ''The Little Match Girl'' based on the story. * Bulgarian composer Peter Kerkelov wrote a piece for classical guitar titled "The Little Match Girl" * American composer David Lang completed his own rendition of the original story in 2007. '' The Little Match Girl Passion'' is scored for four solo voices, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with percussion, and was written for Paul Hillier and his ensemble Theater of Voices. The work was awarded the
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in music in 2008. It presents Hans Christian Andersen's tale in Lang's characteristic post-minimalist style with thematic influence from
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's '' St. John'' and '' St. Matthew'' Passions. * In 2010, Vocaloid producer Akuno-P (of Evillious Chronicles fame) produced the song "The Flames of the Yellow Phosphorus", an alternate take on the story featuring Kagamine Rin. In the song, the girl must sell all the matches she has, or else her father will not feed her. After lighting a match, she decides to burn her father's house down and steal his money for food, as to not be cold nor starving. She gets burned at the stake as punishment. * In 2012,
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recorded the song "Matchstick Girl" on their album ''
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'', which according to the band's frontman, Rogue, refers to Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. * Tori Amos's 2015 musical ''The Light Princess'' includes the song "My Fairy-Story", where the main character reads this story and compares it to her own situation. * In 2015, Japanese techno-rap unit
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produced the song "" (, 'The Little Match Girl'). * In 2016,
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wrote a rendition of the original story for narrator, choir, and orchestra, with lyrics by David Warner. It was first performed during the 2016 Christmas Concert of
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, with
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as the narrator. * In 2018,
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's Chuu music video of their song "
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" was an adaptation of the story. * In 2021, Chengdu-based rapper MaSiWei released "Little Match Girl (卖火柴的小女孩)" which alludes to this story.


Television

* In 1974, a contemporarized version set in
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on Christmas Eve was aired on
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. This Christmas special was placed in syndication and last aired on the
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in December 1982. It is notable for featuring a then-9 year old
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. * In 1986, HTV released ''The Little Match Girl'' as a musical based on the original story. The cast included
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and
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. It included the song "
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", which became a Christmas hit in the UK two years later for
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. * ''The Little Match Girl'' (1987), an
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television film directed by
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, and starring Keshia Knight Pulliam,
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and
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. The film received a mixed reception from critics. * In 1990, a modernized version set to original music and narrated by
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was presented by HBO Storybook Musicals, in which the girl is the daughter of a homeless New York couple forced to live underground in an abandoned subway station due to the economic collapse of the 1990s. * ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'' (Sweden, 2013), directed by Uwe Janson. * A short parody version of ''The Little Match Girl'' was featured in the ''
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'' episode "Garbage Sushi" with the Little Match Girl voiced by
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, her father voiced by
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, and her grandmother voiced by
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. In this sketch version, she was selling matches stating that she must sell them or her father will beat her. Upon lighting a match, she sees a family. Upon lighting the second match, she sees a vision of her grandmother who tells the Little Match Girl that
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is in Heaven and that
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is a fairy tale. Upon being told of her grandmother's plan, the girl learns the power of fire with the matches and kills her father for his abuse upon spilling alcohol on him and then using her matches to burn him to a skeleton. Then she finds her grandmother's jewelry and cracks an egg on her father's burning skeleton. By the final scene, the Little Match Girl is in a warmer location where she gives the bartender a big stack of money for a cup of
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. When asked what her name is, the girl states "My name's the Little F****** Match Girl" and then throws the cup of Mai Tai at the screen. * In 2017, a version of ''The Little Match Girl'' was featured on Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Rolando Villazon televised on PBS. * The tale of the Little Match Girl and the Toothless Goon was recreated through song by
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on the original
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TV show '' Taskmaster''.


See also

*
List of works by Hans Christian Andersen This is a list of published works by Hans Christian Andersen. The list has been supplemented with a few important posthumous editions of his works; the year given in each entry refers to the first Danish edition. They are all in the public domain ...
*
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*
Vilhelm Pedersen Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen (28 January 1820 – 13 March 1859) was a Danish painter and illustrator who is known for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. He was the first artist to illustrate Andersen's works. His drawing ...
, the first illustrator of Andersen's fairy tales *"
To Build a Fire "To Build a Fire" is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story. The first one was published in 1902, and the other was published in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, ...
", two versions of a short story by
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about an adult who suffers from hypothermia in the Yukon Territory *
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References


External links


"The Little Match Girl"
Jean Hersholt's English translation
"The Little Match Girl" in the New Normal Reader''Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne''
Original Danish text

The Annotated Little Match Girl
"The Little Matchgirl"
Creative Commons audiobook

at the
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David Lang's passionEnglish translation (full text) from "Andersen's Fairy Tales"
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