The song was orchestrated by the German conductor Robert Heger in 1932. In 1897, Paul Bernhoff wrote an English version of the lyrics, which were published as a bilingual “Universal Edition” by his publishers (Joseph Aible Verlag, Leipzig). The song was given its first public performance at Meiningen in a chamber concert on 5 March 1886 (along with three other Opus 10 songs Nichts, Allerseelen, and Georgine) sung by the tenor Rudolf Engelhardt. In 1885, they were the first songs Strauss ever published. 10, which were all settings of Gilm's poems. " Zueignung" was the first of eight songs by Strauss published as Op. Strauss promised to later write some songs for Aunt Johanna. The song was dedicated to the principal tenor of the Munich Court Opera, Heinrich Vogl. The Opus 10 songs were all written for the tenor voice, which caused some trouble in the Strauss family, since his father Franz wanted him to write his first published songs for his Aunt Johanna as thanks for all of her help with his musical development. However, the original Gilm poem was not contained in this volume, and the original title of Gilm's poem was the refrain " Habe Dank" ("have thanks" or "take thanks"). In 1882, his friend Ludwig Thuile introduced Strauss to the poetry of Gilm contained in the volume Letzte Blätter (last leaves), published in the year of the poet's death (and the composer's birth) 1864. Heinrich Vogl, the tenor to whom the song was dedicated
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