The Seven Runeberg Songs,
Op. 13,[a] is a collection of
Swedish-language
art songs for vocal soloist and piano written from 1891 to 1892 by the Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius;[b] each is a setting of a poem by the Finnish poet
Johan Ludvig Runeberg.
Constituent songs
Ordered by catalogue number, the Op. 13 songs are as follows:
"Under strandens granar" ("Under the Fir-Trees"), Op. 13/1 (1892)[3]
"Kyssens hopp" ("The Kiss's Hope"), Op. 13/2 (1892)[4]
"Hjärtats morgon" ("The Heart's Morning"), Op. 13/3 (1891)[5]
"Våren flyktar hastigt" ("Spring is Flying"), Op. 13/4 (1891)[6]
"Jägargossen" ("The Young Huntsman"), Op. 13/7 (1891)[9]
Orchestral version of No. 4
In 1913, Sibelius arranged "Våren flyktar hastigt" for vocalist and orchestra.
Notes, references, and sources
Notes
^Because Sibelius's Op. 13 songs are sung in Swedish, this article gives preference to each song's native title, rather than the English translation.
^All but a few of Sibelius's songs are settings of Swedish-language poems (quantitatively, his favorite poets were
Ernst Josephson,
Johan Ludvig Runeberg,
Viktor Rydberg, and
Karl August Tavaststjerna [
fi])[1] and are with piano accompaniment. While many are of high quality, they largely have been neglected outside the
Nordic realm, due to the limited coverage (in terms of number of speakers) of Swedish (relative to, for example, German or French).[2]
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