Songs
Das Pfarrjüngferchen
(1837)
Op. 62-2 no.4
Das Pfarrjüngferchen
Herr Pfarrer hat zwei Fräulchen,Die gar zu niedlich sind, Sie haben kleine MäulchenUnd Schühlein wie ein KindUnd kleine flinke Händchen,Zu knöppeln Spitz' und Käntchen,Zu wickeln runde Knäulchen, Zu drehen Rädchen wie der Wind. Im selbstgemachten Schöpfchen,Im Lätzchen selbstgestickt, Im selbstgeflochtnen Zöpfchen,Im Strümpfchen selbstgestrickt, Im selbstgebleichten Schürzchen,Sie heben rußge Stürzchen, Und rühren um im Töpfchen Den Kohl, vom Gärtchen selbstbeschickt.Am Sonntag, wenn zu langeDer Vater läßt den Sand Der Predigt rinnen, bangeWird ihrer fleißgen Hand, Verborgen unterm Stühlchen,Sie halten da ein Spülchen, Ein Künkelchen im Gange, Man sieht es nicht im Gitterstand.Das sind des Pfarrers Fräulchen,Die gar zu niedlich sind, Sie haben kleine MäulchenUnd Schühlein wie ein KindUnd kleine flinke Händchen,Zu knöppeln Spitz' und Käntchen,Zu wickeln runde Knäulchen, Zu drehen Rädchen wie der Wind.
The parson’s little ladies
The parson has two little ladiesWho are so very sweet and pretty,They have little mouthsAnd little shoes like a child’sAnd nimble little hands,To work lace and little borders,To wind little round balls,To turn little wheels like the wind.In the little topknots they’ve tied,In the little bibs they’ve embroidered,In the little pigtails they’ve plaited,In the little stockings they’ve knitted,In the little aprons they’ve bleached,They lift grimy little lids,And in a little potStir cabbage from their own little garden.On Sundays, if their father’s Sermon drags on too long,Their busy little handsExpress alarm;Hidden beneath their little pewThey keep a little bobbin,A little distaff in motion,Which no one sees in their enclosed pew.These are the parson’s little ladiesWho are so very sweet and pretty,They have little mouthsAnd little shoes like a child’sAnd nimble little hands,To work lace and little borders,To wind little round balls,To turn little wheels like the wind.
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Composer
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (G30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869),was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor. He wrote over 400 ballads and songs.
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Poet
Friedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.
Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer. He was educated at the local Gymnasium and at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. From 1816–1817, he worked on the editorial staff of the Morgenblatt at Stuttgart. Nearly the whole of the year 1818 he spent in Rome, and afterwards he lived for several years at Coburg (1820–1826). Rückert married Luise Wiethaus-Fischer there in 1821. He was appointed a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Erlangen in 1826, and, in 1841, he was called to a similar position in Berlin, where he was also made a privy councillor. In 1849 he resigned his professorship at Berlin, and went to live full-time in his Gut (estate) at Neuses (now a part of Coburg).
When Rückert began his literary career, Germany was engaged in her life-and-death struggle with Napoleon; and in his first volume, Deutsche Gedichte (German Poems), published in 1814 under the pseudonym Freimund Raimar, he gave, particularly in the powerful Geharnischte Sonette (Sonnets in Arms/Harsh Words), vigorous expression to the prevailing sentiment of his countrymen. During 1815 to 1818 appeared Napoleon, eine politische Komödie in drei Stücken (Napoleon, a Political Comedy in Three Parts) of which only two parts were published; and in 1817 Der Kranz der Zeit (The Wreath of Time).
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Das Pfarrjüngferchen
The parson’s little ladies
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Composer
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (G30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869),was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor. He wrote over 400 ballads and songs.
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Poet
Friedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.
Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer. He was educated at the local Gymnasium and at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. From 1816–1817, he worked on the editorial staff of the Morgenblatt at Stuttgart. Nearly the whole of the year 1818 he spent in Rome, and afterwards he lived for several years at Coburg (1820–1826). Rückert married Luise Wiethaus-Fischer there in 1821. He was appointed a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Erlangen in 1826, and, in 1841, he was called to a similar position in Berlin, where he was also made a privy councillor. In 1849 he resigned his professorship at Berlin, and went to live full-time in his Gut (estate) at Neuses (now a part of Coburg).
When Rückert began his literary career, Germany was engaged in her life-and-death struggle with Napoleon; and in his first volume, Deutsche Gedichte (German Poems), published in 1814 under the pseudonym Freimund Raimar, he gave, particularly in the powerful Geharnischte Sonette (Sonnets in Arms/Harsh Words), vigorous expression to the prevailing sentiment of his countrymen. During 1815 to 1818 appeared Napoleon, eine politische Komödie in drei Stücken (Napoleon, a Political Comedy in Three Parts) of which only two parts were published; and in 1817 Der Kranz der Zeit (The Wreath of Time).
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