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"The Faithful Hussar" (German: "Der treue Husar") is a German song based on a folk song known in various versions since the 19th century. In its current standard form, it is a carnival song from Cologne since the 1920s. == Origin and history == A source claims, that in the estate of Caspar Joseph Carl von Mylius (b. November 11, 1749, d. 1831) a handwritten version of the text from 1781 was found, that Mylius brought from Austria to Cologne.〔( Website of "Rote Funken", the oldest carnival corps in Cologne )〕 The proof was found after his death in 1831. This version is supposedly the oldest ever. Since this version obviously has not been published, the exact wording and the correspondence with later versions can not currently be verified. In 1808 Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano in the third volume of their collection ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'' published a version of the text under the title ''Die gute Sieben'' (The good seven).〔Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano (Hrsg.): ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Alte deutsche Lieder.'' Band 3. Mohr und Zimmer, Heidelberg 1808, pp. 34-36 ((Online ) at Deutsches Textarchiv)〕 Achim von Arnim had compiled from this text from five different versions, that had been recorded by Bernhard Joseph Docen, Auguste Pattberg, Bettina von Arnim and two unknown senders.〔Heinz Rölleke (ed.): ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Lesarten und Erläuterungen, Teil 3'' (= Band 9,3 der Frankfurter Brentano-Ausgabe). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-002284-9, pp. 63-71.〕 In 1816 Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching first published a melody to the song, that has been recorded by Carl Hohnbaum in Franconia, which does not match today's popular tune.〔Johann Gustav Büsching: ''Wöchentliche Nachrichten für Freunde der Geschichte, Kunst und Gelahrtheit des Mittelalters.'' II. Band. Holäuser, Breslau 1816, pp. 292 f. ().〕 In ''Munsterische Geschichten'' (1825) we find a version similar in wording to the now popular one.〔Friedrich Arnold Steinmann (Hrsg.): ''Münsterische Geschichten, Sagen und Legenden: nebst einem Anhange von Volksliedern und Sprüchwörtern.'' Coppenrath, Münster 1825, pp. 218–219 ().〕 In 1856 Ludwig Erk in the first edition of the his collection ''Deutscher Liederhort'' published three different versions of the song.〔Ludwig Erk: ''Deutscher Liederhort.'' Enslin, Berlin 1856, pp. 95–99 (online bei Wikisource).〕 The 1893 version of the same collection compiled by Franz Magnus Böhme contains seven different versions of the text and five different melodies.〔Ludwig Erk, Franz Magnus Böhme (Hrsg.): ''Deutscher Liederhort.'' Band 1. Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig 1893 (Nachdruck: Olms, Hildesheim 1963), pp. 329–333.〕 In the earliest published versions of the text, the acting person is mostly referred to as "Knabe" (boy) or "Edelknabe" (squire). The editors of the ''Wunderhorn'' also received two entries referring to a "brave soldier", which were not used for the Wunderhorn version though.〔 Evidence for versions of the text referring to a "hussar" as acting in person date back to the 1880s only: they were recorded in 1880 at Imbden near Dransfeld (Province of Hanover) and in 1885 in Oberlahnkreis and Kreis Wetzlar.〔 The folk song collector Elizabeth Marriage points in 1902 to the prevalence of the song and mentions the hero - in their version of the text "a young hussar" - appears "mostly as a fine boy'', also young boy, brave soldier, red hussar".〔Elizabeth Marriage: ''Volkslieder aus der badischen Pfalz.'' Niemeyer, Halle 1902, pp. 38–39 ().〕 Today's popular version of the song has been composed by Cologne Carnival composer and former military bandleader Heinrich Frantzen (1880-1953)〔''Frantzen, Heinr.'' In: Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: ''Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon'', 1. Teil, Neudruck der Ausgabe von 1936, 15. Aufl., Heinrichshofen’s Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1971, pp. 171.〕 as a marching song〔(Der treue Husar ), performed by Musikkorps der Schutzpolizei Berlin, directed by Heinz Winkel, at youtube.com〕 composed. Cologne-based music publisher Gustav Gerdes OHG (now part of Hans Gerig publishers in Bergisch Gladbach) published the song in 1924. The march was allegedly composed on the occasion of establishing the Cologne Carnival society "K.G Treuer Husar blau gelb" in 1925.〔(K.G. Treuer Husar blau-gelb von 1925 e.V. Köln )〕 Originally, the lyrics taken from the folg song were added only the refrain-like part of the piece. Which version of the text served as the model to Frantzen is not known. The tune does not match any of the melodies published in the 19th century. It is unclear whether Frantzen did cite an existing tune, or whether the march was completely composed by himself. The note in a sheet music issue of original publisher states: "This is the only popular and protected version of the 'faithful hussar' with the additional composition by Heinrich Frantzen".〔„Dieses ist die einzige populäre und geschützte Fassung des ‚treuen Husaren‘ mit der zusätzlichen Komposition von Heinrich Frantzen“. ''Die Super-Stimmungs-Polonaise'' (GG 438). Gerig, Köln o.J. (1966 )〕 Joseph "Jupp" Frantzen, the composer's son, allegedly has added the additional lyrics 〔(Lyrics in Cologne und standard German )〕〔(Version with complete lyrics ) performed by Willy Millowitsch, youtube.com〕 subsequently. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Faithful Hussar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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