Cradle Song is the common name for a number of
children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original
of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend,
gute Nacht ("Good evening, good night"), Op. 49, No. 4,
published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby.
The lyrics of the first verse are from a collection of
German folk poems called Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the
second stanza was written by Georg Scherer in 1849. The
Lullaby was first sung by Brahms's friend, Bertha
Faber, as the ...(+)
Cradle Song is the common name for a number of
children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original
of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend,
gute Nacht ("Good evening, good night"), Op. 49, No. 4,
published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby.
The lyrics of the first verse are from a collection of
German folk poems called Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the
second stanza was written by Georg Scherer in 1849. The
Lullaby was first sung by Brahms's friend, Bertha
Faber, as the piece had been written to celebrate the
birth of her son. Brahms had been in love with her in
her youth and constructed the melody of theWiegenlied
to suggest, as a hidden countermelody, a song she used
to sing to him.(Wikipedia)
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