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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 137 GOETHE'S LEIPZIG SONGS. The songs of which mention is so often made in these letters, and which Goethe also referred to in his work, "Truth and Poesy," as having been published without his name, and as being but little known, were afterwards included by him with the remainder of his smaller productions. These "buds and blossoms which the spring of 1769 brought forth," as he writes to Mad. von Stein, appeared under the following title:--NEW SONGS SET TO MELODIES BT BERNHARD THEODORE BREITKOPF. LEIPZIG: PUBLISHED BY BERNHARD CHRISTOPHER BREITKOPF AND SON. 1770. It is evident, however, from our letter (p. 74) that the collection was already printed in 1769. Tieck was the first to call attention to " this oldest book of songs," and in the sixth volume of the New Annual of the Berlin Society for the Cultivation of the German Language and Archseology he reprinted these songs, and Viekoff subsequently included them in his Exposition of Goethe's Poems, vol. I. p. 45. Some of the poems were also communicated to the "Almanack of the German Muses," for 1773 (2, 3, 7, 16) and for 1776 (4, 6, 10, 13), and also to the Leipzig Journal "The Muses" for 1776 (3, 7, 11) with a few inappreciable variations evidencing an earlier composition. As was surmised, they were certainly taken from copies existing from the time of Goethe's residence in Leipzig. Amongst the remains left by Frederika Oeser was preserved the original written book of songs by Goethe, the same collection referred to in the rythmical letter, (p. 112) with the title, SONGS "WITH MELODIES DEDICATED TO MADEMOISELLE FREDERIKA OESER, BY GOETHE. This contains only ten songs, of which nine appear in the collection published; the tenth is not included, but this is to be found in " The Muses," referred to above, a...
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