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FAMOUS SONGS
dorf, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Riickert (read his " How Christ came to a Lonely Child"), Heine, Geibel, Scheffel, and Freiligrath ("Hurra, Germania" and " Were I before the Gates of Mecca"), besides of course the great masters, known to all the world.
It is not my intention to treat of the songs founded on the Rhine legends—they are too many, and many of these beautiful pieces are familiar, as, for instance, Heine's lovely lyric, " Die Loreley." Freiligrath and Scheffel are favourites with all English lovers of the ballad; the latter and Chamisso have produced some exquisite humorous and pathetic poems. " The Widow's Son" and "The Toy of the Giant's Child" are splendid specimens of Chamisso's talent. Ruckerf's " Barbarossa" (the old legand of the Emperor Frederick Red Beard, whom the popular imagination of the Middle Ages pictured as confined underground with his beard growing through the stone table at which he was sitting!) is still a leading favourite in student circles. The touching ballad," Andreas Hofer/' is much sung in South Germany and the Tyrol. Andreas Hofer is the name of the heroic inn-keeper who was shot as a rebel in 1810.
Humorous, agreeable songs—mostly of a bac-chanalian character—are as plentiful as black-8 113 |
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