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"" ("To wander is the miller's delight") is the first line of a poem by
Wilhelm Müller Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1821) and ''Winterreise'' (1823). These would later be the source of inspiration for two song cy ...
, written in 1821 with the title "Wanderschaft" as part of a collection, ''Die schöne Müllerin''. While ''wandern'' is defined as "hiking" today, it referred to the required
journeyman years In the European apprenticeship tradition, the journeyman years (, also known in German as , , and colloquially sometimes referred to as , ) is a time of travel for several years after completing apprenticeship as a craftsman. The tradition date ...
of craftsmen when written, in this case of a
miller A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents ...
. The poem was set to music often, notably by
Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
in 1823 titled "Das Wandern", as part of his song cycle ''
Die schöne Müllerin ' (,"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the first of Schubert's two seminal cycles (preceding ''Winterreise'')'','' and a pinnacle of ''Lied'' r ...
'', and by Carl Friedrich Zöllner, who wrote a four-part setting in 1844. With his melody, the poem became a popular German and .


History of the text

The beginning of the poetry is based on the play ''Rose, die schöne Müllerin'', which premiered in the house of Friedrich August von Staegemann in Berlin in the fall of 1816. Inspired by
Giovanni Paisiello Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born i ...
s 1788 opera ''La molinara'', Ludwig Berger wrote the plot as a ''Liedspiel''. Berger requested more texts related to the topic, which Müller wrote during a study trip to Italy, completed in
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in 1820. In the context of the cycle, the beginning reflects, beyond the joy of ''Wandern'', the strict scheme of required
journeyman years In the European apprenticeship tradition, the journeyman years (, also known in German as , , and colloquially sometimes referred to as , ) is a time of travel for several years after completing apprenticeship as a craftsman. The tradition date ...
as part of the training of craftsmen, who often longed for rest. The text mentions in four short
stanza In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'', ; ) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. ...
s that "to wander is the miller's delight", comparing the steady restless motion of walking to that of the water driving mills, their wheels and stones, and asks in the fifth and last stanza leave from the master and his wife. The poem was published in 1821 in ''Sieben und siebzig Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten'' (Seventy seven poems from the bequested papers of a travelling hornist).


Musical settings

The poem was first set to music by
Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
in 1823, titled "Das Wandern", as part of his song cycle ''
Die schöne Müllerin ' (,"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the first of Schubert's two seminal cycles (preceding ''Winterreise'')'','' and a pinnacle of ''Lied'' r ...
'', together with 19 other poems from the cycle. Several others set it to music, including
Heinrich Marschner Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was a German composer best known for his operas. He is considered to be the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner.Otto Nicolai Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy ''The Merry Wives of Wi ...
and . In 1844, Carl Friedrich Zöllner composed a four-part setting for men's chorus. With his melody, the poem became a popular German and (folk song). It was included in collections before 1900, such as Ludwig Erk's ''Singvögelein – Ein-, zwei- und dreistimmige Lieder'' ittle songbird – songs for one, two and three voiceswhich appeared in 1883 in its 59th edition, and in 1895 in
Franz Magnus Böhme Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme (11 March 1827 in Willerstedt – 18 October 1898 in Dresden) was a German academic, musicologist, composer, folksong collector and writer on music history and folksong. Biography The son of a farmer, Böhme became ...
's ''Volksthümliche Lieder der Deutschen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert'' olkloric songs of the Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries When the
Wandervogel ''Wandervogel'' (plural: ''Wandervögel''; English: "Wandering Bird") is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 to 1933, who protested against industrialization by going to hike in the country and commune with na ...
youth movement was founded in 1905, the song became part of many of its songbooks but not of the standard '. It remained popular, but was not part of typical
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songbooks. After World War II, the catalogue of Deutsches Musikarchiv listed around 350 recordings and 160 sheet music versions. It remained a favourite also in Austria and Switzerland.


Melody

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