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Mein Herr and werter Herr (lit. “my lord” and “worthy lord”) are also sometimes used, though these have an old-fashioned touch. In correspondence, the correct form of address is Sehr geehrter Herr ("Dear Mr." or "Dear Sir", lit. "Very honored lord"), followed by the surname. Frau (Fr.; pl., Frauen)
" O du lieber Augustin" ("Oh, you dear Augustin") is a popular Viennese song, first published about 1800. It is said to refer to the balladeer Marx Augustin and his brush with death in 1679. Augustin himself is sometimes named as the author, but the origin is unclear.
Some "Muss i denn" versions were widely popularized in the 20th century; those interpreted by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich [4] and by French singer Mireille Mathieu and Greek singer Nana Mouskouri deserve mention. [5] The latter also sings English words (though not a translation) to the tune, under the title "There's a Time".
The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) for an 1815 production "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" ("Oh, don't tremble, my dear son") is the first aria performed by the Queen of the Night (a famous coloratura soprano role) in Mozart's singspiel The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
Sholom Secunda was a composer born in the Russian Empire in 1894. He immigrated to the United States as a boy in 1906. [4] When composing tunes for Yiddish theater as a young man, Secunda purportedly spurned a youthful George Gershwin as a musical collaborator in favor of Jacob Jacobs, [5] [4] an actor-director affiliated with the Parkway Theater. [5]
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" Du, o schönes Weltgebäude" (You, O beautiful building of the world) is a Lutheran hymn in German, with text by Johann Franck [1] and melody by Johann Crüger. It was first published in Crüger's 1649 Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien , and was later adopted in other hymnals, such as the 1653 edition of his Praxis pietatis melica .
"Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf" ("Sleep, dear child, sleep") is a German lullaby. The oldest surviving version is a text and melody fragment of the first stanza, which appears in 1611 as part of a quodlibet in Melchior Franck's Fasciculus quodlibeticus.