WENEN, WENEN, WENEN, WENEN (DE VIER RAADSELS)

Created on 16/12/2008
Latest update on 02/01/2023

Artist: Antonia Willekens-van den Broek
Author: traditional
Label: M&W
Year: 1970

On cd There Were Two Royal Children (and nineteen other songs about true and untrue love) in the M&W box set Onder De Groene Linde (163 Dutch Ballads From The Oral Tradition), focusing on the field recordings of Dutch Lomax Ate Doornbosch. This woman (from Budel, Noord Brabant), learned her songs from her mother, who knew them from her mother.

Covers:

1971:

Zangeres Zonder Naam [as Het Soldaatje (De Vier Raadsels); top 5 NL]

Collected all over the Netherlands and Flanders, mostly as Al In De Stad Van Wenen. On 19th century sheet music named De Nieuwe Raadsels (of de trouwe minnares die alles raden kan om haar minnaar van den dood te bevrijden). Sometimes as Het Soldaatje Van Wenen or De Vier Raadsels.

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