Nitty Music plays on Cello, May Song (Folk song) from Book 01 of the Suzuki Cello Method.
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Cellos by Luthiers Clar.
Piano Accompaniment by Ms. Accompanist.
This is Shinichi Suzuki’s arrangement of the German folk song Alle Vögel sind schon da.
It is one of the most famous German spring songs for children.
The text was written in 1835 by Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874)1 and published in 1837.
The same year the first arrangement by Ernst Richter appeared. With the current tune, the song was first published in 1844 under the title Frühlingslied in the Rauhen Haus songbook. This melody was in the eighteenth century as a farewell song. The composer is unknown.
In 1847 the song appeared on the compilation: Forty Children’s Songs by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, with piano accompaniment by Marie Nathusius. An alternative title is Alle Vöglein sind schon da This folk tune has long been known by the words “Now I’ll be out of here”; In 1799 she was associated with the words “Oh, my dearest child”.
Predecessors of this tune include u. “Brother Konrad” in the Glogau manuscript songbook, about 1480; the popular tune that Leopold Mozart wrote in 1762 as “Bourlesq” in the “Notenbuch für Wolfgang” (ancestor of the great family of melodies “Fox, you have stolen the goose”) and the theme on which W. A. Mozart wrote the variation “Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman”, he wrote (related to Hoffmann von Fallersleben’s words “Tomorrow comes Santa Claus” in 1835)