As Oehlenschläger stated in his introduction to the 1808 version of "Aladdin", he was not a native speaker of German; he admitted to incorporating various Danish modes of expression ("Danismen") into his translation. His "unidiomatic and erroneous" use of German had hindered the play's success. In preparing a later German edition (1820 at the latest), he made a large number of changes and minor improvements, also correcting his imperfect German: but he dropped the magical 1808 ending, reverting to the original Danish 1805 finale. The first complete English translation, by Theodore Martin, published in 1863, is also based on a later edition, thus the first editions in German are the only ones to incorporate the words which Busoni uses.