O Tannenbaum O Tannenbaum "" (; "O fir tree", English: "O Christmas Tree") is a German Christmas song. Based on a traditional folk song, it became associated with the traditional Christmas tree by the early 20th century and sung as a Christmas carol. The modern lyrics were written in 1824, by the Leipzig organist, teacher and composer Ernst Anschütz. A "Tannenbaum" is a fir tree. The lyrics do not actually refer to Christmas, or describe a decorated Christmas tree. Instead, they refer to the fir's evergreen quality as a symbol of constancy and faithfulness. Anschütz based his text on a 16th-century Silesian
Samuel A. Tannenbaum work of Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and his collaborators. Tannenbaum also was deeply involved on the question of the forgeries of John Payne Collier. He believed the entire account book of the Office of the Master of the Revels was a Collier forgery—a view that has found no other defenders, though several other scholars, such as Charlotte Stopes, argued that the Revels accounts book was a partial forgery. He was also convinced that Simon Forman's "Book of Plays" was a Collier forgery, a position that only a minority of commentators support. Samuel A. Tannenbaum Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum (1874–1948) was a