IM MÄRZEN DER BAUER
Created on 26/11/2007Latest update on 12/06/2024
Artist: Joseph Pommer
Author: traditional
Year: 1884
The March part in Austrian harvest song Das Kalenderlied (So hasset die Sorgen, verjaget sie gar), with different stanzas for every month of the year. Composer unknown. Priest Remigius Sztachovis first found So hasset die Sorgen in handwritten songbooks from 1808 in Heideboden (Hungaria) and published the song in 1867.
The opening notes of Mozart's first Menuet from Haffner Serenade (Serenade #7 in D Major KV 250) from 1776 sound identical with Im Märzen der Bauer/Zie Ginds Komt De Stoomboot.
Covers:
- 1912:
various [from then on the melody was used for Zie Ginds Komt De Stoomboot, a popular Dutch Sinterklaas poem first published in 1851 by Amsterdam schoolhead Jan Schenkman in his collection St. Nicolaas En Zijn Knecht]
- 1926:
Albert de Booy [oldest recording as Zie Ginds Komt De Stoomboot, for Colibri]
- 1933:
Oom Bob [idem]
- 1950s:
- 1956:
Radiokinderkoor Jacob Hamel [as Zie Ginds Komt De Stoomboot]
- 1980s:
Leidse Sleuteltjes [idem]
- 1992:
André Rieu [idem]
- 1995:
If he'd lived one century later, Schenkman's Sinterklaas would have landed in a spaceship. A steam boat was like his era's technological equivalent.
