In 1960, Bertold Hummel wrote the monophonic Christmas carol "Wir grüßen dich, o Jesuskind" for the MAGNIFIKAT hymnal of the Archdiocese of Freiburg to a text by Marie Luise Thurmaier. He wrote an organ setting for the accompanying organ book, which he transposed for the collection "20 Advent and Christmas chorales for 4 trombones" published in 1985. In 1999, DKM Siegfried Koesler asked Hummel to compose a Christmas carol for his Würzburg Cathedral Choir for a Christmas carol CD. Bertold Hummel then composed a simple prelude and assigned the original organ part to the respective choir parts. He spontaneously wrote a movement for three recorders for a Christmas party for his niece's children in December 1990 and created a string section for the family orchestra for a performance at a Christmas mass in his home parish of St Bruno in Würzburg. In this performance, the organ accompaniment alternated with the string section in addition to the solo part. In the last year of his life, Hummel returned to this carol and included it in his collection 16 Weihnachtslieder für zwei gleiche Stimmen.