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by Johannes Daniel Falk (1768 - 1826)

O du fröhliche
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
O du fröhliche,
o du selige,
gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit!
Welt [ging]1 verloren,
Christ ist geboren.
Freue, freue dich, [Christenheit]2! 

O du fröhliche,
o du selige,
gnadenbringende Osternzeit!
Welt [liegt]3 in Banden;
Christ ist erstanden.
Freue, freue dich, [Christenheit]2! 

O du fröhliche,
o du selige,
gnadenbringende Pfingstenzeit!
Christ, unser Meister,
Heiligt die Geister.
Freue, freue dich, [Christenheit]2!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   K. Drobisch 

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Confirmed with Johannes Falk's auserlesene Werke alt und neu, erster Theil, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819. Appears in Seestücke, page 557.

1 Drobisch: "ist"
2 Drobisch: "o Christenheit"
3 Drobisch: "lag"

Text Authorship:

  • by Johannes Daniel Falk (1768 - 1826), "Allerdreifeiertagslied", written 1816, appears in Seestücke [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 Franz Wilhelm Abt (1819 - 1885), "O du fröhliche, o du selige", published 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Weihnachtslieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte gesetzt, no. 2, Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Luise von Drieberg (1801 - 1843), "Die drei Feste", op. 5 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1843 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Ludwig Drobisch (1803 - 1854), "Die drei Feste", op. 66 (Sechs Lieder für zwei Sopranstimmen mit Piano-Forte-Begleitung) no. 1 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Louis Samson , "Die drei Feste", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. I. Reihe, Heft IV, no. 2, Dresden, Arnold  [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Melanie Trumbull , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-03
Line count: 18
Word count: 60

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