Untersuchung zu einem slawonischen Volkslied aus dem Nachlass von Karl Eduard Hering

Abstract

Study of a Slavonic Folk Song from Papers Left by Karl Eduard Hering

The Bautzen Town Museum contains in the papers left by the composer Karl Eduard Hering (1807–1879), who worked for many years in Bautzen, a sheet of paper from 1846, headed with the title “Slavonic Folk Song”, which presents a composition based on the text of the Southern Slav folk song “Nemam mira ni pokoja”. It also contains his own version in German. The text is clearly not original, but is blended together with a well known folk song, “Kad te vidim na sokaku”. The same contaminated version of this song was published a few months earlier by Adolf Grünhold in the journal Das Ausland. This discovery in the archives provides evidence of the interest of K. A. Kocor’s music teacher in contemporary popular Southern Slavic folklore.