Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen
schneeflöckchen weißröckchen little snowflake white little skirt german christmas carol original version come hedwig haberkern – published song first book contemporary german version english translation compared original text consists two stanza eight line text usually reproduced four fourline stanza weißröckchen silesian synonym snowflake appear original version text opening verse fourth last line according poet song sung melody song wir kinder wir haben der freuden viel child much joy text song christian adolph overbeck first published musenalmanach year wolfgang amadeus mozart set revised text song voice piano da kinderspiel kv another setting published karl christian agthe cannot therefore said absolute certainty whether hedwig haberkern wanted mozart melody snowflake song since two known setting art song melodically rhythmically demanding simple childrens song would also conceivable hedwig haberkern knew another folksong melody melody common today composer known documented song book since however first half th century song spread across several different melody sung melody im märzen der bauer well composition johann andré kurt schläger latest end second world war melody known today prevailed occasionally – postwar songbook – source mentioned song brought german colonist russia courland list christmas carol