Wiegenlied

Wiegenlied

Music: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Words: First stanza from a collection of German folk
poems called Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Second stanza by Georg Scherer (1824-1909)

Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) is Brahms’ famous lullaby that we all know in our bones,as innumerable numbers of parents sing their babies to sleep with this melody of simple beauty. Brahms dedicated Wiegenlied to his friend Bertha Faber, to commemorate the birth of her second son. Brahms had been in love with Faber, and wrote the melody of Wiegenlied with a song she had sung to him in mind.

Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany. He spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. He was a vital part of music history and sits beside Bach and Beethoven as one of the "three B’s." His style of composition was both traditional and innovative. While continuing to use compositional structures of earlier Baroque and Classical composers, his developments in harmony and melody re-cast these forms firmly within the Romantic era. Brahms composed approximately 380 songs, including nearly 100 arrangements of folk and children’s songs; as well as many other works including piano pieces, symphonies, concertos, and chamber works.

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