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Wiegenlied" ("Lullaby"; "Cradle Song"), Op. 49, No. 4, is a lied for voice and piano by Johannes Brahms which was first published in 1868. It is one of the composer's most famous pieces. It is one of the composer's most famous pieces.
"Die Blümelein, sie schlafen" is the first line of the German lullaby "Sandmännchen" , from Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio's collection Deutsche Volkslieder (1840). The melody is based on a French song from the late 1500s which was also used for the Christmas carol " Zu Bethlehem geboren " (1638) to a text by Friedrich Spee .
As a template for the first stanza was a Low German version of Johann Friedrich Schütze's Holstein Idioticon (1806), [3] the other stanzas are added poetry of Clemens Brentano. Franz Magnus Böhme reprinted 36 text variants in 1897. Johannes Brahms set the text to his own music as No. 11 in his collection 15 Volkskinderlieder, WoO 31 (1857). [4]
Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano (German: Zwei Gesänge für eine Altstimme mit Bratsche und Klavier), Op. 91, were composed by Johannes Brahms for his friends Joseph Joachim and his wife Amalie. The text of the first song, "Gestillte Sehnsucht" (Longing at rest), is a poem by Friedrich Rückert, composed in 1884.
Wiegenlied (German for "lullaby") may refer to: Wiegenlied (Brahms), the composer's Op. 49, No. 4 "Wiegenlied, D 498" (Schubert), "Schlafe, schlafe, holder, süßer Knabe" and two other songs by Franz Schubert "Wiegenlied" (Des Knaben Wunderhorn), German folk song
Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein, Schäfchen ruhn und Vögelein, Garten und Wiese verstummt, auch nicht ein Bienchen mehr summt, Luna mit silbernem Schein
2nd mvt is a theme and variations on the old German Minnelied Verstohlen geht der Mond auf, later set for female chorus and piano as Ständchen WoO 38 No. 20; the ms is entitled Sonata No. 4; as Op. 2 was written before this one, Brahms wrote two other Piano Sonatas prior to this (Anh. 2a/15) that he destroyed Op. 5: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor
^a signifies Italian translation ^b signifies a co-producer ^c signifies an additional producer ^d "I Met an Angel (On Christmas Day)" was originally released on the "That's the Way It Is" single in 1999. It replaced "I'm Your Angel" on the 2020 edition of the album following the 2019 documentary Surviving R. Kelly.