sentences:  The music to the poem as it is known today was written by the composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in 1790 as a secular song named "" (How charming, how pleasant).Around 1832, this melody was first published with Schmid's poem in a collection " (Sixty German songs for thirty pennies) by Friedrich Eickhoff (1807–1886).This collection was later printed in large numbers by the just founded (1835) C. Bertelsmann Verlag.