Expert: David Froom - 7/3/2006

Question
Hello Mr. Froom,

I'm singing a song by Max Reger entitled Warnung.  The text begins "Männer suchen stets zu naschen...".  It's attributed as a Volkslied.  

However Mozart wrote a piece with the same text, and attributed it to a poet by the name of Gorter.

Any ideas who this could be?  There is a poet by the name of Herman Gorter, but he lived too late to be the guy I'm looking for.

Thanks!
Jennifer

Answer
Hi,

I took a look on the web, and everywhere I see the text's author for the Mozart listed either as anonymous or unknown.

Maybe your edition with Gorter listed as the author is in error?

You might check at a good music library in a Mozart Urtext edition.  I'm guessing that "anonymous," "unknown," or "folksong" (Volkslied) is probably accurate.

David Froom