Meine Mutter Fragt Mich Immer: Trinkst Du? (Completion)

Meine Mutter Fragt Mich Immer: Trinkst Du?, Biamonti 43, Song (1792)

This incomplete song is set to the poem entitled "An Amarant: Krank für Liebe," by Leopold Friedrich Günther von Göckingk (1748-1828).

Göckingk

Beethoven sets only the first verse of Göckingk's poem, although there are six stanzas in all in the original. The German text of Beethoven's setting is as follows:

Meine Mutter fragt mich immer 
Trinkst du auch der Madel Trank?
Trink ihn, Trink ihn,
Taeglich wirst du schlimmer,
Taeglich, taeglich wirst du schlimmer,
ach die liebe, ach die liebe, ach die liebe
Macht mich krank.

The text translates thus:

My mother asks me always
Do you drink the maiden's drink?
Drink it, drink it
Daily you get worse
Daily, daily you get worse -
ah, love, ah, love, ah, love
makes me sick.

The first stanza of Göckingk's original poem reads as follows:

Meine Mutter fragt mich immer: 
Trinkst du auch den Mandeltrank?
Trink ihn, täglich wirst du schlimmer! --
Ach!die liebe Macht mich krank.

The original manuscript is in the Fischoff Miscellany in Berlin. Reconstruction & completion by Willem.

Biamonti: 43

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