LORELEI LIED, DAS
Created on 30/04/2008Latest update on 21/02/2024
Artist: Clara Wieck-Schumann
Author: Heinrich Heine/Friedrich Silcher/Clara Wieck-Schumann
Year: 1843
Composer Robert Schumann's wife. Heine wrote his poem Die Loreley in 1823 and composer Silcher wrote the music in 1838. Original title of the poem: Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten. Franz Liszt wrote a different melody for it; versions as such: Louise Homer (Victrola - 1912), Sigrid Onegin (Victor - 1929).
Covers:
- 1889:
Emile Berliner [on Berliner 5 inch with a chorus]
- 1899:
Wilhelm Deusing [on Edison]
- 1900:
- 1900s:
American Standard Orch. [as Loreley Paraphrase on Edison]
- 1901:
Emil Muench [as Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten and one year later as Lorelei]
- 1902:
- 1903:
- 1911:
Beulah Young & Clara Moister [as Whispering Hope, crediting Alice Hawthorne, an alias for Septimus Winner who wrote this in 1868; he's also the author of Listen To The Mockingbird and sold both copyrights much too cheap]
- 1912:
Helen Clark & Harry Anthony [idem]
- 1912:
Elsie Baker [as Loreley]
- 1914:
Olive Kline & Elsie Baker [idem]
- 1915:
- 1920:
Ida Heydt & Elisabeth Lennox [idem]
- 1920s:
Wiener Sängerknaben [as Lorelei]
- 1926:
Richard Tauber [as Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten]
- 1927:
- 1940:
- 1947:
- 1949:
Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae [hit US]
- 1949:
- 1950:
- 1953:
- 1957:
- 1958:
- 1958:
- 1960:
- 1961:
- 1962:
Mieke Telkamp & Yvonne Oostveen [as Whispering Hope]
- 1962:
- 1967:
- 1971:
- 1972:
Vera Lynn [as Whispering Hope]
- 1976:
- 1976:
- 1977:
- 1977:
Mireille Mathieu [als Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten]
- 1978:
Heino [as Die Loreley]
- 1986:
Peter Schreier [als Loreley, with Konrad Ragassnig on guitar]
- 1999:
- 2003:
- 2003:
Larry Gatlin [all as Whispering Hope]
Also in Disney animation film Silly Symphony ('32) as King Neptune.
