Please Meet Placidus Partsch!
We're attacking our cataloguing piles today! Karen assigned herself a big pile of collected editions and rolled her sleeves up. At the bottom of the heap was Liedersammlung fur Kinder und Kinderfreunde am Clavier: Fruhlingslieder and Winterlieder, dating from 1791. The introduction explains that the collection was compiled for children to sing, or for older children and adults to sing to younger ones. So - this is intended as nursery repertoire, 1791-style!
It's fascinating! The very first song is one set by Mozart - not the only one - and you might recognise the names of Vanhal and Hoffmann. (The others are no longer exactly mainstream.) The compiler, a man with the enviable name of Placidus Partsch, set himself the task of assembling 30 songs for each season, but only the spring and winter volumes survive.You can find them in our catalogue HERE, and they're shelved as part of the Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era series, vol.95, published by A-R Editions.
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