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“Ihr Kinderlein, kommet” (“O Come, Little Children”) is a German Christmas carol.
The lyrics were written by Catholic priest and writer Christoph von Schmid in 1798. His poem “Die Kinder bei der Krippe” (The Children in the Manger) originally had eight lines and was first published in 1811. Schmid later included it in his 1818 collection Flowers dedicated to the age of flowering. Franz Xaver Luft set it to music in 1837 along with other poems in this collection.
The music of the poem as it is known today was written by the composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in 1794 as a secular song called “Wie Reizend, wie wonnig” (How charming, how pleasant). Around 1832, this tune was first published with Schmid’s poem in a collection Sixty German Songs for Thirty Cents by Friedrich Eickhoff (1807-1886). This collection was later printed in large numbers by the newly founded C. Bertelsmann Verlag (1835).