Brahms Lullaby Sheet Music for Piano Solo
John M. Williams Educational Series
By Johannes Brahms, Arranged by John M. Williams
Cover Art by Hauman
Boston Music, 1933, 3 pages
Condition as shown in photos. Somewhat shelf worn and aged with a few small tears around edges. Store stamp and name written on front cover. Otherwise no markings found.
Store stamp : St. Louis Band Instrument Co. Inc., 918 Olive St.
From Wikipedia :
"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 popular pieces.
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. The lullaby was first performed in public on 22 December 1869 in Vienna by Luise Dustmann (singer) and Clara Schumann (piano).
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