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Confirmed with Friedrich Güll, Kinderheimath in Liedern, Volksausgabe: Drei Gaben in einem Band, Güntersloh: C. Bertlesmann, 1875

Text Authorship:

• by Friedrich Güll (1812 - 1879), "Spruch", appears in Kinderheimath in Liedern [author's text checked 1 time 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 Eduard August Grell (1800 - 1886), "Kindleins Abendgebet", op. 53 (Sechs Duette für Sopran und Alt mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1884 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Berlin, Bahn [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard August Grell (1800 - 1886), "Wenn die Kinder schlafen ein", op. 71 (18 Chorlieder für vier gemischte Stimme), Heft 1 no. 5, published 1885 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Sulzer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Wann die Kinder schlafen ein", op. 37 (Acht Kinderlieder) no. 5 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with the multi-composer anthology Jungbrunnen, no editor named, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1875, page 51 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Wenn die Kinder schlafen ein", op. 25 (Sieben dreistimmige Jugendlieder ) no. 4, published 1916 [ three-part children's chorus and piano ], München: Wunderhornverlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Philipp) Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860), "Abendliedchen", published 1840 [ vocal duet or vocal trio a cappella ], from Zwölf Kinderlieder für Schule und Haus, von Ernst Moritz Arndt, Agnes Franz, Fr. Güll, Hölty, Wilh. Müller, Christoph Schmid, K.W. Wiedenfeld etc. zwei- und dreistimmig, no. 9, Tübingen: Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (1811 - 1891), "Engelwacht", op. 184 no. 4, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], from Klänge aus der Kinderwelt, Heft X [also, later, Heft XI], no. 4, Leipzig, Seitz [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Zum Einschlafen", op. 11 (Kinderlieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier) no. 2 (1918), published c1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

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