"Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen", like "Luci care, luci belle", and "Die Zu-
friedenheit", is transcribed from "Singt und spielt, Musikbuch für Schulen von
Dietrich Stoverock, dritter Band-A, Velhagen und Klasing, 1961".

The book cites as sources the Forsterian Songbook (1539), manuscript collections
of the universities of Bale and Munich, and Georg Rhaw, Wittenberg 1541.

I deviated from the printed version by transposing the lower instrument down by
an octave to make it suitable for a cello. The staccati in bars 16 and 17 are
also mine.

The story goes that Emperor Maximilian I wrote the words when, on assuming the
throne, he had to move from Innsbruck to Vienna. Heinrich Isaak was his court
composer/conductor. The melody was so popular that it was used for several
church hymns ("O Welt, ich muss dich lassen", "In allen meinen Taten", "Nun
ruhen alle Wälder"). Both J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart are reported to have said
they would sacrifice their best work if they could have written this melody.

I then found a different version in "Geselliges Chorbuch, Lieder und Kanons in
einfachen Sätzen für gemischten Chor, herausgegeben von Richard Baum", Bären-
reiter Asugabe 1300, Veränderte Neuauflage 1950 (Original 1938). I selected
score elements like brackets, braces, voices and such for the first version;
the second version is very much an afterthought on my part. I also changed the
scale from F to D to coincide with the first version.

This version has slightly changed words for the last line of the second verse
(dass ich muss von dannen sein) which is less singable. However, its spelling
of the first word of the third line of the third verse is "stet" instead of the
original "stät", which I didn't understand. This spelling suggests "stetig" =
steady.

Another oddity in the second version is how it notates the seventh/sixth and
third/second bars from the end for the first voice: dotted crotchet (1/4),
three quavers (1/8), dotted crotchet, bar line, quaver, minim (1/2), crotchet,
bar line; so the first bar of these pairs has nine quavers, the second seven!
Obviously, I had to correct that. I also felt that the quaver tied to the minim
in the same bars is wrong.

Enjoy!

Michael Bednarek
<mb@nrhs.health.nsw.gov.au>
http://www.geocities.com/mcmbednarek/