Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust

History of the text#

The beginning of the poetry is based on the play Rose, die schöne Müllerin, Inspired by Giovanni Paisiellos 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 Dessau in 1820.

Musical settings#

The poem was first set to music by Franz Schubert in 1823, titled “Das Wandern”, as part of his song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, together with 19 other poems from the cycle. Otto Nicolai 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 Little songbird – songs for one, two and three voices which appeared in 1883 in its 59th edition, and in 1895 in Franz Magnus Böhme’s Volksthümliche Lieder der Deutschen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert Folkloric songs of the Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries . When the Wandervogel 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 Nazi 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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External links#

• , includes “1. Das Wandern”
• “Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust”, postcards, Osnabrück University