Johannes Brahms - Wiegenlied Cradle Song Op. 49 No. 4 1868 - Classical Music

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Johannes Brahms Wiegenlied Cradle Song Op. 49 No. 4 1868 Classical Music

Johannes Brahms; (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.

Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.

Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs.

Brahms based the music of his "Wiegenlied" partially on "S'Is Anderscht", a duet by Alexander Baumann [de] 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 Louise Dustmann (singer) and Clara Schumann (piano).

Guten Abend, gut’ Nacht ist ein seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bekanntes Gedicht deutschsprachiger Volkspoesie. In der Vertonung von Johannes Brahms unter dem Titel Wiegenlied (im englischsprachigen Raum auch als Brahms’ Lullaby bekannt) wurde es zu einem der bekanntesten Schlaflieder.

Bonsoir, bonne nuit (en allemand Guten Abend, gute Nacht) universellement connue sous le nom de Berceuse de Brahms est une œuvre pour voix et piano de Johannes Brahms publiée en 1868 (Wiegenlied op. 49/4). C'est l'une des berceuses les plus célèbres de la musique classique.

Fisher-Price et Playskool ont utilisé cette mélodie, dans leurs jouets.

La chanteuse Céline Dion a chanté sur cette mélodie.

On entend souvent cette mélodie dans Les Dalton et Zig et Sharko.

Il Wiegenlied op. 49 n° 4 Guten Abend, gute Nacht (Ninna nanna: Buona sera, Buona notte) è una composizione in Mi bemolle Maggiore, per pianoforte e voce solista di Johannes Brahms composta nel 1868, che fa parte della raccolta di cinque melodie (Lieder op. 49) per voce sola e pianoforte. È una ninna nanna per bambini, infatti in Italia è comunemente definita come Ninna nanna. Il testo originale riportato sotto è di origine medioevale. La seconda strofa è stata aggiunta alla poesia nel 1849 da Georg Scherer (1824–1909).

Wiegenlied (em português Canção de Ninar) de Johannes Brahms é a Op. 49, nº 4, originalmente escrito para voz e piano, publicado em 1868.

『子守歌』（こもりうた、ドイツ語: Wiegenlied）作品49-4は、ヨハネス・ブラームスが作曲した歌曲。「ブラームスの子守歌」として親しまれる。

Het Wiegenlied van Brahms, Guten Abend, gut’ Nacht, is een van de bekendste composities van Johannes Brahms. Het lied heeft opusnummer 49 (4) en werd gepubliceerd in 1868. De tekst van het lied is afkomstig uit de verzameling volksgedichten Des Knaben Wunderhorn van Clemens Brentano en Achim von Arnim (1805-1808).