Ritterliche Werbung

"Wo gehst du hin, du schönes Kind?"
"Zu melken, Herr!" -sprach Gotelind.

"Wer ist dein Vater, du schönes Kind?"
"Der Müller im Tal!" -sprach Gotelind.

"Wie, wenn ich dich freite, schönes Kind?"
"Zu viel der Ehre!" -sprach Gotelind.

"Was hast du zur Mitgift, schönes Kind?"
"Herr, mein Gesichte!" -sprach Gotelind.

"So kann ich dich nicht wohl frein, mein Kind."
"Wer hat's Euch geheißen?" -sprach Gotelind

Input by Charles James Pearson

Authorship

by Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) , title unknown

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Hugo Distler (1908-1942) , "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 1 no. 11 (1939). [chorus]
by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835-1913) , "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 81 (Vier Gesänge) no. 3.
by Robert Kahn (1865-1951) , "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 42 (Zehn Lieder) no. 3 (1904).
by Manfred Schlenker (1926-) , "Ritterliche Werbung", published 2006 [vocal quintet], from Zehn Mörike-Burlesken für fünf Stimmen, no. 7.
by Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) , "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 62 no. 11 (1948-9), from Das holde Bescheiden (Liebe), no. 11.
by Wolfgang Ulrich (1924-1995) , "Ritterliche Werbung", 1984. [duet]
by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863-1942) , "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 41 no. 7, published 1906, from Frühlings- und Liebeslieder, no. 7.

ENG English (Charles James Pearson) , "Chivalrous Courting", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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