*Home Sweet Home*
Ich fand das interessant – ich wusste das nicht genau. Und warum ich danach gesucht habe ? Weil ich es gerne genauer wissen wollte was dieser Text für einen Hintergrund hat. Und warum gerade jetzt ? weil es diese Woche auf Ruthies Montagsherz steht..
„Home! Sweet Home!“ (also known as „Home, Sweet Home“) is a song that has remained well known for over 150 years. Adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne’s 1823 opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan, the song’s melody was composed by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop with lyrics by Payne. The words are as follows:
“ Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which seek thro‘ the world, is ne’er met elsewhere.
Home! Home!
Sweet, sweet home!
There’s no place like home
*Home Sweet Home*
Ich fand das interessant – ich wusste das nicht genau. Und warum ich danach gesucht habe ? Weil ich es gerne genauer wissen wollte was dieser Text für einen Hintergrund hat. Und warum gerade jetzt ? weil es diese Woche auf Ruthies Montagsherz steht..
There’s no place like home! “
As soon as 1827 this song was quoted by Swedish composer Franz Berwald in his Konzertstück for Bassoon and Orchestra (middle section, marked Andante). Gaetano Donizetti used the theme in his Opera Anna Bolena (1830) Act 2, Scene 3 as part of Anna’s Mad Scene to underscore her longing for her childhood home. It is also used with Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs and in Alexandre Guilmant’s Fantasy for organ Op. 43, the Fantaisie sur deux mélodies anglaises, both of which also use „Rule, Britannia!“. In 1857 composer/pianist Sigismond Thalberg wrote a series of variations for piano (op. 72) on the theme of Home! Sweet Home!.
The song was reputedly banned from being played in Union Army camps during the American Civil War for being too redolent of hearth and home and so likely to incite desertion.
The song is famous in Japan as „Hanyū no Yado“ („埴生の宿“?) („My Humble Cottage“). It has been used in such movies as The Burmese Harp and Grave of the Fireflies. It is also used at Senri-Chūō Station on the Kita-Osaka Kyūkō Railway.
Bin zu faul es ins deutsche zu übersetzen…
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