Whoever hears Engelbert Humperdinck's name inevitably thinks of Hansel and Gretel, the fairytale opera that was premiered on 23 December 1893 at the K. Hof & National Theater in Weimar under the direction of Richard Strauss and within a few years - already translated into 17 languages - storming the opera stages of the world. In July 1902 Engelbert Humperdinck, head of the Academic Master School for Musical Composition at the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1900 and since 1901 also Professor of Composition at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, corresponded with Friedrich Andreas Perthes, the owner of the publishing house of the same name in Gotha. The first edition of the German Children's Song Book with a total of 72 songs appeared in 1903. Adelheid Wette and Humperdinck had folk songs for it, but also songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Johann Adam Hiller and Carl Maria von Weber selected and new songs added, additional stanzas were added to traditional songs and a simple, unmistakable Humperdinckian piano movement was added to all wise men.

Around 120 years ago, Wette and Humperdinck made a big hit with the German Children's Song Book: they collected and edited songs suitable for children, which have musical and textual demands, which are equally captivating for children and adults, and which can be found on the fine line between still known songs and those that we had (almost) forgotten, and they contributed new creations from the spirit of loving naivety.

Contents:
1. Schäferin suchen
2. Jäger und Hase
3. Heraus aus dem Lager
4. Frühlingsweben
5. Die Mühle
6. Frühlings Ankunft
7. Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär
8. Frühlingsbotschaft
9. Die Schwalbe
10. Des Storches Wiederkehr
11. Es fing ein Knab' ein Vögelein
12. Nachtigallen und Frösche
13. Warnung
14. An den Mai
15. Bienchen summ!
16. Vogelhochzeit
17. Das Füchslein
18. Rätsel (Ein Männlein steht im Walde)
19. Das Waldhorn
20. Johanniskäfer
21. Sommertag
22. Marienwürmchen
23. Erwacht von Schlaf und Träumen
24. Das Pappelmaul
25. Suse, liebe Suse
26. Rätslied
27. Vöglein, Blümlein und Wässerlein
28. Waldlied
29. Ward ein Blümchen mir geschenket
30. Gute Nacht!
31. Schlaf, Herzenskind
32. Wiegenlied
33. Goldengelein
34. Kinderwacht
35. O wie wohl ist mir am Abend
36. Sonntag
37. Tick tack Ührchen
38. Große Uhren gehen: Tick, tack!
39. Puthühneken
40. Was streicht der Kater seinen Bart
41. Lügenlied
42. Steckenpferd
43. Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz