WoO 111 – Punschlied: “Wer nicht, wenn warm von Hand zu Hand der Punsch im Kreise geht, der Freude voller Lust empfand” for Solo Voice, with Unison Choir and Piano
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WoO 111 – Punschlied: “Wer nicht, wenn warm von Hand zu Hand der Punsch im Kreise geht, der Freude voller Lust empfand” for Solo Voice, with Unison Choir and Piano, 1789-1790, published by Schiedermair (Der junge Beethoven, appendix), 1925, and recently by W. Hess, in the fifth booklet of the Supplemente zur GA., 1962. Boett. 1/6 – B. 292 – H. 126 – KH. (WoO) 111 – P. 21 -Sch. p. 217/25.
The original manuscript is preserved in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. The poetic text, by an unknown author, has seven stanzas, of which Schiedermair reports only the first:
Wer nicht, wenn warm von Hand zu Hand
der Punsch im Kreise geht,
der Freude voll’re Lust empfand,
der schleiche schnell hinweg.
Wir trinken alle hocherfreut,
so lang uns Punsch die Kumme beut.
Chor:
Wir trinken alle hocherfreut,
so lang uns Punsch die Kumme beut.
Die Kumme ist ein (tiefes, rundes) Gefäß.
[By Biamonti Giovanni – Catalogo cronologico e tematico delle opere di Beethoven comprese quelle inedite e gli abbozzi non utilizzati, Torino, ILTE 1968]
Official title: WoO 111 Punschlied Lied (G-dur) für einstimmigen Chor und Klavier Widmung: — NGAXII/1 Nr. 73 AGA-SBG V/17 (2. Auflage: 18; Hess 126)
Origin and publication: Lied composed in 1791/92 in Bonn. The First Edition was published posthumously in Ludwig Schiedermaier’s 1925 biography of Beethoven. The dating of this song is based on the chronological classification of the paper used by Beethoven and on the attestation that WoO 109 and 111 correspond to each other both in the structure of the autograph score, both in writing and in very similar musicality. Probably, the works were intended for the same social context.
Text: Origin and author unknown. According to Helga Lühning, it could be the same author who wrote the text of Lied 109. In Beethoven’s transcription only the first verse underlying the music has survived, but his indications at the end of the piece („bey der 2ten 3ten 6ten und 7ten Strophe wird das Khor ausgelassen […]“ ) show that at least six other verses belonged to the Lied. First performance unknown.
The sketches will be treated in an article specifically created by Beethoven Music Research Centre www.lvbeethoven.org
