IM MÄRZEN DER BAUER
Created on 26/11/2007Latest update on 15/03/2024
Artist: Joseph Pommer
Author: traditional
Year: 1884
Austrian harvest song. Composer unknown. First published in his Liedbuch für Deutschen in Österreich. The opening notes of Mozart's first Menuet from Haffner Serenade (Serenade #7 in D Major KV 250) from 1776 sound identical with 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.
