Johannes Brahms

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Lullaby / Wiegenlied - Op. 49, No. 4

Brahms based the music of his "Wiegenlied" partially on "S'Is Anderscht", a duet by Alexander Baumann published in the 1840s. The cradle song was dedicated to Brahms's friend, Bertha Faber, on the occasion of the birth of her second son. Brahms had been in love with her in her youth and constructed the melody of the "Wiegenlied" to suggest, as a hidden counter-melody, a song she used to sing to him. Simrock published Brahms's Op. 49 in November 1868. The lullaby was first performed in public on 22 December 1869 in Vienna by Luise Dustmann (singer) and Clara Schumann (piano).

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiegenlied_(Brahms)

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Brahms - Lullaby / Wiegenlied - Op. 49, No. 4
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