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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

O Jesulein zart
Language: German (Deutsch) 
[O Jesulein zart, 
das Kripplein ist hart,
O Jesulein zart]1,
wie liegst du so hart,
Ach schlaf, ach tu die Aügelein zu,
Schlaf, und gieb uns die ewige Ruh. 

Schlaf Jesulein wohl, 
nichts hindern soll
Ochs, Esel, und Schaf 
sind alle im Schlaf.
Der Seraphim singt und Cherubim klingt
viel Engel im Stall, sie wiegen dich all.

Seid stille ihr Wind, 
lasst schlafen das Kind!
[All Brausen sei fern, 
laßt ruhn euren Herrn!]2
Schlaf, Kind, und tu dein' Äuglein zu,
schlaf und gib uns die ewige Ruh!

Nichts mehr sich bewegt, kein Mäuslein sich regt,
zu schlafen beginnt das herzige Kind.
Schlaf denn und tu dein' Äuglein zu,
schlaf und gib uns die ewige Ruh!
Nichts mehr man dann singt, kein Stimmlein mehr klingt:
schlaf Jesulein zart, von göttlicher Art!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Elling •   E. Humperdinck 

C. Elling sets stanzas 1-2

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1 Humperdinck: "O Jesulein zart,/ O Jesulein zart,/ das Kripplein ist hart"
2 Humperdinck:"Ihr Stürme, halt' ein, das Rauschen lasst sein!"

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Christkindleins Wiegenlied", appears in Des Knaben Wunderhorn [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Catharinus Elling (1858 - 1942), "Christkindleins Wiegenlied", 1887-88, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus des Knaben Wunderhorn I, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Christkindleins Wiegenlied", 1906, rev. 1913, from Weihnachtslieder, no. 7, note: last two lines omitted [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Erkki Gustaf Melartin (1875 - 1937), "Christkindleins Wiegenlied", op. 42 (7 Lieder mit Klavier) no. 2 (1906) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (1870 - 1949), "Christkindleins Wiegenlied", op. 39 no. 8 (1906-8), from Acht Notturnos, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Jësulein Zart", op. 279 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Set in a modified version by Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, as Henry Handel Richardson, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Julius Weismann, Erich J. Wolff, Mary Wurm.

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Reinhold Becker.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 133

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