While searching for the proof that the tune of the famous song, “What a Wonderful World” comes from the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, I happened upon your blog. Or is just meant to remain forever a mystery? So, here we sit, all this, and still, NO ONE TO–THIS DAY–knows just who it was that wrote the damn thing!!!īut, really, you guys. Mozart also spoke 15 languages before he was eight! and he could work a jackhammer. Hachette, it reads that the tune was part of the 18th century harpsichordists’ traditional directory and that Mozart popularized it by writting variations on this theme. It was also published by François Bouin in a book “La vielleuse habile” in 1761 and by Michel Corrette in “La belle vielleuse” in 1783 (hurdy-gurdy methods). “Le livre des chansons” by Henry Davenson (1957) says that the tune to this song could be found as early as 1740 (Mozart wasn’t born yet). If anyone would like to give other references for or against what I said – that’d be most welcome! It also confirms that the poem The Star by Jane Taylor was printed in 1806 in the book Rhymes for the Nursery. It says that Baa Baa Black Sheep has the same tune as it, as does the ABC song (which was first published in 1835). It lists Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman. It says that the music was traditional from France. The other book I have, called The Great Song Thesaurus by Roger Lax and Frederick Smith, was published in 1984 by Oxford University Press. It was 1st published in 1964 by Thomas Yoseloff Ltd. One book is called The Songs We Sang by Theodore Raph. Two of my books say the tune to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is originally French. My music texts say that he did write it but if you have better resources… lol
I am a music student and the origin of the tune to twinkle twinkle little star was actually written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was 4 years of age. Tweet 48 Responses to “The Origin of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” Many thanks to Isa Santoveña for the midi tune, to Monique Palomares for the translation of Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman, and to Tiphaine Woerth for singing Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman for us! If you’d like to share a version from your country, please email me. You can find it in Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish and many other languages. The wonderful song has traveled around the world in many languages. Here’s the song as children sing it in English today: It seems like the first time they’re seen in print as a song was in 1838, in a book called The Singing Master. It’s a bit of a mystery when the poem and the tune came together to form the wonderful song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Jane wrote the poem, The Star, for the book. That’s when Jane Taylor and her sister Ann published their second book of poems for children, called Rhymes for the Nursery. We have to travel over to England in 1806 to find the origins of the lyrics of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. He didn’t! He just created a wonderful piece based on the tune. Many people think he wrote the tune to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. In 1781-2 Mozart wrote his Variations on “Ah vous dirais-je, Maman”. This one is still loved by French children today: It was also called Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman. Later, a parody of the love song developed. In the 1770’s, a poem called, Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman (Ah! Will I tell you, Mother), was set to the Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star tune and printed.
It’s at least 245 years old! The tune is originally from France and it was first seen in print in Paris in 1761 – though the current song, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star didn’t exist back then. People all around the world are familiar with the tune to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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