O Christmas Tree lyrics Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music
22916498
O Christmas Tree lyrics
22916498
22916498
22916498
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Flute Quintet, Woodwind Ensemble Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Flute, Piccolo - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1550976
Composed by Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz. Arranged by Omar Taliti. This edition: pdf. Chamber, Christmas, Classical, Holiday. 6 pages. Omar Taliti #1123387. Published by Omar Taliti (A0.1550976).The modern lyrics were written in 1824 by the Leipzig organist, teacher and composer Ernst Anschütz. A Tannenbaum is a fir tree. The lyrics do not actually refer to Christmas, or describe a decorated Christmas tree. Instead, they refer to the fir's evergreen quality as a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.[1]
Anschütz based his text on a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior Franck, "Ach Tannenbaum". In 1819 August Zarnack wrote a tragic love song inspired by this folk song, taking the evergreen, "faithful" fir tree as contrasting with a faithless lover. The folk song first became associated with Christmas with Anschütz, who added two verses of his own to the first, traditional verse. The custom of the Christmas tree developed in the course of the 19th century, and the song came to be seen as a Christmas carol. Anschütz's version still had treu (true, faithful) as the adjective describing the fir's leaves (needles), harking back to the contrast to the faithless maiden of the folk song. This was changed to grün (green) at some point in the 20th century, after the song had come to be associated with Christmas.
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