("Springtime, how good and faithful you are"), WAB 58 is a

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composed by

Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...

in 1856 on a text of

Oskar von Redwitz Oskar Freiherr von Redwitz (28 June 1823 – 6 July 1891) was a German poet from Lichtenau, Bavaria. Having studied at the universities of Munich and Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the law in the Bavarian State service (1846–49). He next ...

History

Bruckner composed the

on five strophes of Oskar von Redwitz' . He dedicated the work to Friedrich Mayer,

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of the St. Florian Abbey.C. Van Zwol, p. 716U. Harten, p. 49 Two original manuscripts are stored in the and by the editor Anton Böhn & Sohn in

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. 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''.C. van Zwol, p. 718 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 – Lieder für Gesang und Klavier
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Text

The song uses strophes 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9 of Oskar von Redwitz' ''Amaranths Waldeslieder''.

Music

The 102-

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long work in

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is scored for solo voice and

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Discography

There are two recordings of ''Wie bist du Frühling, gut und treu'': * Robert Holzer (bass), Thomas Kerbl (piano), ''Anton Bruckner Lieder/Magnificat'' – CD: LIVA 046, 2011. NB:

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E major E major (or the key of E) is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps. Its relative minor is C-sharp minor and its parallel minor is E minor. Its enharmonic equivalent, ...

. * Elisabeth Wimmer (soprano), Daniel Linton-France (piano) in "Bruckner, Anton – Böck liest Bruckner I" – CD – Gramola 99195, 3 October 2018 (in 3 parts)

References

Sources

* August Göllerich, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild'', – 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. *

Uwe Harten Uwe Harten (born 16 August 1944) is a German musicologist, who works in Austria. Life Born in , Harten grew up in Hamburg, where he was a boy soprano at the Staatsoper. He took over the roles of a child. In Hamburg he also began his studies of ...

, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. , Salzburg, 1996. .

External links

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''Amaranths Waldeslieder'' G-Dur, WAB 58
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