Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf! (4 stanza version)
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Wikipedia
"Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf" ("Sleep, dear child, sleep") is a German lullaby.
The oldest surviving version is a text and melody fragment of the first stanza, which appears in 1611 as part of a quodlibet in Melchior Franck's Fasciculus quodlibeticus. The current melody of the lullaby was composed by Johann Friedrich Reichardt in 1781 after a folk tune and also used for "Maikäfer flieg" (cockchafer fly). The currently known text version was distributed by the third volume of the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1808). As a template for the first stanza was a Low German version of Johann Friedrich Schütze's Holsteinisches Idiotikon (1806), 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).
Annotation
Stanzas 1, 2, 4 and 6 of the "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"-version (see Wikipedia).
Melody: Johann Friedrich ReichardtLast modified: 2024-08-24 (revision #197469)
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinderlieder: Texte und Melodien | Paperback | 978-3-15-018489-9 | 2009 |
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- Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf!(4 stanza version) was previously attributed to Joachim Heinrich Campe
- Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf!(4 stanza version) was written by [traditional]
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