| Key: | C major |
| Catalogue: | WAB 91 |
| Type: | Secular choral work |
| Form: | Drinking song |
| Text: | August Silberstein |
| Language: | German |
| Vocal: | choir |
(Patriotic wine song), WAB 91, is a song composed by Anton Bruckner in 1866 during his stay in Linz.
Bruckner composed this work, together with Vaterlandslied, on a six-strophe text of August Silberstein in November 1866 during his stay in Linz on request of Anton M. Storch. The song was performed by the Liedertafel Frohsinn on 13 February 1868 under Bruckner's baton.[1] [2] [3]
The work, of which the original manuscript is lost, was first issued in the German: Wiener Compositionalbum by Emil Berté in 1892. Thereafter (September 1894), it was issued with another text by Bibamus as German: Eine Wein-Legende (A wine legend) in the Neues Wiener Journal.[2] [3] The work is issued in Band XXIII/2, No. 21 of the German: Gesamtausgabe.[4]
The Vaterländisch Weinlied uses a text by August Silberstein.
| Like the vinesMay it riseIn the aspiration up to light! |
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The 12-bar long work in C major is scored for choir[3] - "German: ein Trinklied mit höherem moralische Hintergrund" ("a drinking song with higher ethical background"), which exhibits a peculiar imprint with unexpected inflexions and austere harmonies in a narrow time span.[2]
There is a single recording of Vaterländisch Weinlied.