O Christmas tree

O Christmas tree (German: O Tannenbaum) is a well-known Christmas Carol of German origin. ==History[ Edit] == O Christmas tree would have emerged from a sixteenth-century text of a Silesian folk song of the popular composer Melchior Franck (1579 – 1639), Ach Tannenbaum("Och FIR"). The German philologist Georg Büchmann (1822 – 1884), however, indicates in his literary quotations library Geflügelte Worte 1864 on an even older source, the song Es hing ein Stallknecht seinen Zaum ("There hung a groom his toom"), which already contained the following stanza between 1550 and 1580:[1] [2] ("O FIR you are a noble branch, your colors green in the winter and in the sweet summer time. If all trees dor, then color your green, noble spruce tree ".)

The German Joachim August Zarnack (1777 – 1827), in addition to preacher and orphanage Director also collector of folk songs, wrote inspired by this text in 1819 O Tannenbaum a tragic love song, in which the FIR the reliability symbolizes opposite the unfaithful lover. [3]

Christmas song was the only when Ernst Anschütz (1780 – 1861), teacher from Leipzig, rewrote the text in 1824. [4]  he held the first verse of Zarnack and added two verses to, in which the ' Pine Tree ' was sung as a Christmas tree . Christmas trees were meanwhile become part of the Christmas party. The first verse contained at Zarnack treu sind deine Blätter Whothe text, because of the contrast between the faithful and the unfaithful beloved tree. In the song of Anschütz remained that maintained, up to in the twentieth century the text sind deine Blätter Who grün became popular.

The melody[5] [6] [7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  is a well-known folk tune from the 16th century, that among other things as Es lebe hoch der Zimmermannsgeselle ("Hooray for the Taijourneyman") was sung before 1799 and also as student song (Lauriger Horatius: "award winning Horace") was popular.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]

<p lang="en" len="332" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Christmas song was translated in many languages, so also in Dutch, where the spar by poetic freedom or perhaps simple as germanism in a den changed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because the song with its melody as well known and easy to sing is quite often, other texts worldwide to the tune poem. Two examples of this:

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 * The Red Flag, the party song of social democratic parties in the British Isles, including the Labour Party.
 * Maryland, my Maryland, written by James Ryder Randall in 1861 and since 1939 the official anthem of Maryland<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11] ; also in some other American Federal States or the melody was used this way.