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lolwrutes Brahms bft seoeral proofs'of his great looe for his mother. One was a sublimely beautiful section of his ixalted "Gerntnn_ Requiem," u:ritten as a special tribute after her deruth, whichbespeaks the grandeur of his looe. Anoilwr lu,as perlwps the sweetest cradb song tlw toorW knows, which he composed the sanle sumnler (lS6S). lts softly rocking -rsery rhythm antl the serenity of its refrain seenl to lwr:e beei written for all mothers to comfort all child.ren eDer7uhere.

\\/ords by Karl Simrock,'franslated lry Arthur \Vestbrook NIusic by Johannes Brahrns

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