"Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Czech: Když mne stará matka zpívat učívala; German: Als die alte Mutter sang) is a song for voice and piano written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák. It is the fourth of seven songs from his cycle Gypsy Songs (Czech: Cigánské melodie), B. 104, Op. 55. The Gypsy Songs are set to poems by Adolf Heyduk in both Czech and German. This song in particular has achieved widespread fame.
| Librettist | Adolf Heyduk (1835–1923) |
| Date of composition | 1880 |
| Premiered | 1881, February 4th in Vienna, Austria |
| First published | 1880 |
| Dedicated to | Gustav Walther |
| Type | Song(s) |
| Catalogue | Op. 55 |
| Approx. duration | 14 minutes |
| Instruments |
Voice
Piano |
| Autotranslations beta |
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