Lullaby

Johannes Brahms

For alto sax and piano

Written in F major, range F4 to F5

A mother sings her baby to sleep: good night, sleep well, and wake again in the morning. Brahms wrote it in 1868 for his friend Bertha Faber when her second son was born.

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