• Composer: KINKEL, Johanna (1810 - 1858)
• Genre: Romantic (1838)
• Duration : cca. 1 minute
• 979070-8209-31-7

Hearty and lively! A short bit of fun music to cheer an audience. 

Johanna Kinkel wrote this rumbustious drinking song as a response to a comment about 'female music', in order to prove that women could be as robust as men in their composing style. Scored for tenor solo and chorus, it was written during a particularly happy part of Johanna's life, while she was living in Berlin and enjoying the company of other female composers including Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel.

Sing it in German words or English. Our new 2025 edition has an improved layout and revamped translations by Rosalind Trübger, that closely follow the original meter, meaning and rhyme pattern.

SAMPLE:(computer generated sample)

Johanna Kinkel (also Mathieux, Mockel) made her mark in the worlds of both music and literature and her life makes a fascinating story, holding a strong resonance with the women of today. She was a working mother who, in her short life, was effected by sexual inequality, domestic abuse and an undemocratic regime. She wrote books and composed music, and earned a living as a piano and singing teacher. Her writings reveal that she faced all the same problems as music teachers of today ! Born in Bonn (Germany) she studied music there with Beethoven’s early teacher. As an adult, she spent time in Berlin, where she was a friend of Fanny Mendelssohn, before returning to Bonn and getting caught up in the revolutionary events of 1849, eventually helping her husband, Gottfried Kinkel, to escape from Spandau prison, before emigrating with him and their four children to London. There her short life ended tragically when she fell (or was pushed?) from her bedroom window in near Paddington station.