Abends will ich schlafen gehn, from Hansel and Gretel (string trio)

Title: Abends will Ich schlafen gehn, from the opera Handel and Gretel

Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin; Violin 2 or Viola; Cello

Printout: 4 pages

Note: Sometimes referred to as “Evening Prayer” or “when at night I go to sleep,” this is perhaps the best know song in Humperdinck’s best known work. The first violin part is playable on flute or oboe.