We are accustomed to the New Year's song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest”. She accompanies us every New Year, our entire adult life! But someone once wrote this song. In this article we will try to figure it out.
Instructions
Step 1
The song "A Christmas tree was born in the forest" has a well-defined author and even a fairly accurate year of creation. The author of these simple and familiar lines is Raisa Adamovna Kudasheva. And the author of the melody was Leonid Karlovich Beckman. Many are accustomed to considering this song a New Year's Soviet one, but it was born earlier - in 1903-1905. And she was then Christmas.
Step 2
Interestingly, a little earlier, in 1898, Emmy Köhler from Sweden wrote a very similar song “Nu tändas tusen juleljus”. Its name is translated as "Thousands of candles are lit." Whether our "Yolochka" was overheard in this cute Christmas melody, we will never know.
Step 3
The fact is that the melody of both songs, Russian and Swedish, resembles a German folk song, which has been known since at least 1819! It is called Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus. She received the description "Thuringian motive". Here is such a difficult story in a seemingly unpretentious, but very familiar to us New Year's song.
