Robert Leonhardt, Reiters Morgenlied (Columbia E4997, 1921) - Free Audiobook

Performer: Robert Leonhardt

Matrix and take number: 86738-2

Catalog number: Columbia E4997 (10-inch 78 rpm record)

Runout: 86738

Title: Reiters Morgenlied (text: Wilhelm Hauff, 1824; music: old Swabian folk song)

Bariton mit Orchesterbegleitung [= baritone with orchestra accompaniment]

Folk Song - German

Recorded New York, NY, ca. October 1920.

Label printing date code: AV (= January 1921). Released in 1921.

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Robert Leonhardt was an Austrian baritone (born 1877 in Linz, Austria – died 1923 in New York, NY, USA), who sang at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, from 1913-1918 and 1919-1922.

"Reiters Morgenlied" is a popular song about a young cavalry soldier greeting the dawn of the day on which he is going to die.

The recording on the other side of this disc: Andreas Hofer.