Vaterländisch Weinlied, WAB 91

Vaterländisch Weinlied
Secular choral work by Anton Bruckner
Grapes in a vineyard near Sooss, Lower Austria
Key	C major
Catalogue	WAB 91
Form	Drinking song
Text	August Silberstein
Language	German
Composed	November 1866 (1866-11): Linz
Published	1892 (1892): Vienna
Vocal	TTBB choir

Vaterländisch Weinlied (Patriotic wine song), WAB 91, is a song composed by Anton Bruckner in 1866 during his stay in Linz.

History

Bruckner composed this work, together with Vaterlandslied, on a six-strophe text of August Silberstein in November 1866 during his stay in Linz on request of Anton M. Storch. The song was performed by the Liedertafel Frohsinn on 13 February 1868 under Bruckner's baton.[1][2][3]

The work, of which the original manuscript is lost, was first issued in the Wiener Compositionalbum by Emil Berté in 1892. Thereafter (September 1894), it was issued with another text by Bibamus as Eine Wein-Legende (A wine legend) in the Neues Wiener Journal.[2][3] The work is issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 21 of the Gesamtausgabe.[4]

Text

The Vaterländisch Weinlied uses a text by August Silberstein.

Wer möchte nicht beim Rebensaft Des Vaterlands gedenken? Ein Lebehoch aus voller Kraft Wollen wir ihm schenken! Wie die Reben Mög' sich's heben In dem Streben auf zum Licht!

Who would not want, drinking the grapes' juice, Commemorate the fatherland? We want to give it Cheers with full power! Like the vines May it rise In the aspiration up to light!

Music

The 12-bar long work in C major is scored for TTBB choir[3] - "ein Trinklied mit höherem moralische Hintergrund" ("a drinking song with higher ethical background"), which exhibits a peculiar imprint with unexpected inflexions and austere harmonies in a narrow time span.[2]

Discography

There is a single recording of Vaterländisch Weinlied.

• Thomas Kerbl, Männerchorvereinigung Bruckner 12, Weltliche Männerchöre – CD: LIVA 054, 2012 – 1st and 6th strophes

References

1. C. Howie, Chapter III, pp. 90-91
2. U. Harten, p. 463
3. C. van Zwol, p. 725
4. Gesamtausgabe – Weltliche Chöre

Sources

• Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (Editor), Vienna, 1989
• Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
• Uwe Harten, Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. Residenz Verlag [de], Salzburg, 1996. ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.
• Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography, online revised edition

External links

• Vaterländisch Weinlied, WAB 91: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Vaterländisch Weinlied C-Dur, WAB 91 – Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (in German)