Fünf Gesänge (Five Songs), Op. 2, for Soprano and Piano

At the point of this publication, David Popper’s Opus 1 
has to be considered lost, which makes his Fünf Gesänge, Op. 2 his earliest surviving work. Its dedicatee is Elisabeth Metzdorff, opera singer at the Prussian Royal Court Opera.

Content:

1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Heine)
2. Und wüssten's die Blumen, die kleinen (Heine)
3. Ich will meine Seele tauchen (Heine)
4. In einem kühlen Grunde (Eichendorff)
5. Wie Schmetterlinge (Böttger)