Wäggiser Lied

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level of difficulty: easy to medium
‘This is the charmingest place we have ever lived in’ Mark Twain (1835–1910), about Weggis, at the foot of Mount Rigi, 1897.
Commissioned by the community of Weggis for the official celebration of ‘900 years Weggis (1116–2016)’. Fall 2013 Markus Wolfisberg – project manager at ‘Lucerne Tourism’ – comes up with an idea: a hymn about the lovely village on Lake Lucerne is dearly needed! Josef Doppmann’s humorous poem ‘Mier Wäggiser’, full of hidden meanings, becomes the bedrock of the new Weggis Song, completed by two hymnic verses by Markus Wolfisberg.