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Note: this is a saying ("Spruch") that first appeared in Wandsbecher Bote, 1775, No. 75, p. 300; and then in the Musenalmanach, 1777, of Johann Heinrich Voss, who may merely have claimed Luther said it. It also appears in a poem by Voss titled "An Luther". L. Waldmann's song Luther's Wahrspruch also refers to it.

Text Authorship:

• possibly by Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
• possibly by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Carl Heinrich Brümmer (d. 1872), "Martin Luther", published c1808 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Kühnel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexander Julius Paul Dorn (1833 - 1901), "Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang", subtitle: "Walzer", published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792), "Gesundheit", VB 97 (1782) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Canon a 4", published 1803, from Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft V, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , "Four-part canon"
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Consiglio per la salute", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 13