The Two Songs,
Op. 35,[a] is a collection of
Swedish-language
art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1908 by the Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius.[b] Though considered "masterpieces", the two songs are among the "strangest" songs in Sibelius's oeuvre. "Jubal" (No. 1), furthermore, anticipates Luonnotar, the
tone poem for
soprano and orchestra (Op. 70, 1913).[3]
Constituent songs
Ordered by catalogue number, the Op. 35 songs are as follows:
^Because Sibelius's Op. 35 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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