Johannes Brahms composed his set of 5 Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 47, from 1858 to 1868. They were first published in October 1868 by N. Simrock. The pieces set to music text by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800–1875), after Ḥāfiẓ, Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), Paul Fleming (1609–1640), and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). An average performance of the 5 pieces takes around 10 minutes.
