Arbeit ist Glück (Grüßen am Morgen die Wälder...)

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Arbeit ist Glück (Grüßen am Morgen die Wälder...)

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Post by Alarm_Uboat » 14 Dec 2022, 14:36

Is there any information about this song?(text). Did she belong to the RAD or to another organization? Is there a better quality recording? In the directory Priebergs it is said that its second name is (Arbeit ist Ehre). It begins with the words ,,Grüßen am Morgen die Wälder...,,

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Re: Arbeit ist Glück (Grüßen am Morgen die Wälder...)

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 21 Jan 2023, 13:42

An advice for future: If you're trying to determine whether a composition was possibly made for a certain organisation, which the composition title doesn't indicate itself, always start with the authors (composer/lyricist) - who were they and did they belong to an organisation. Of course, authors belonging to an organisation doesn't necessarily mean that all of their works did too, but it's a good starting point for a research.

The composer of the song was Ehrhart Mühlberg, as Prieberg wrote as well (he misspelled his first name as "Erhard" though). However, Prieberg didn't write much about Mühlberg's political activities. No info on the lyricist, Josef Sauerland, and no other known works of his.

Now, "Arbeit ist Glück" was already mentioned here on the forum: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=252536 (scroll down).

As you can see from the posted record labels, Mühlberg was a choirmaster of an NSBO choir (Männerchor der NS-Fachgruppe BVG), which also recorded the song. NSBO was one of the leading workers organisations in Germany at the time. So - a workers song, composed by an NSBO choirmaster, performed by an NSBO choir and recorded in an NSBO recording session - it seems pretty safe to conclude it was an NSBO song ;)

The scores for the song were published by Fidelio-Verlag, Berlin, 1934 and 1935. No other period sources containing the lyrics seem to be known.


Original record info, from Telefunken-Platten - Rotes Hauptverzeichnis 1936-1937, p. 30
Telefunken-Platten - Rotes Hauptverzeichnis 1936-1937 S-30.jpg

Original publishing info, from Hofmeister's Musikalisch-literarischer Monatsbericht 1934, p. 69
Musikalisch-literarischer Monatsbericht 1934 S-69.jpg
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Ivan


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