Seven Runeberg Songs

Collection of art songs by Jean Sibelius (1891–1892)

Seven Runeberg Songs
Song collection by Jean Sibelius
The composer (c. 1891)
Opus	13
Language	Swedish
Composed	1891 (1891)–1892; No. 4 orch. 1913

External audio
Sung by Anne Sofie von Otter, accompanied by Bengt Forsberg
1) "Under strandens granar"
2) "Kyssens hopp"
3) "Hjärtats morgon"
4) "Våren flyktar hastigt"
5) "Drömmen"
6) "Till Frigga"
7) "Jägargossen"

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]
"Drömmen" ("The Dream"), Op. 13/5 (1891)^[7]
"Till Frigga" ("To Frigga"), Op. 13/6 (1892)^[8]
"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]

References

^ Layton 1993, pp. 160–161.
^ Layton 1993, pp. 159–160.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 405; Dahlström 2003, pp. 40–41.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 405; Dahlström 2003, pp. 41–42.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 404; Dahlström 2003, pp. 42–43.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 405; Dahlström 2003, pp. 43–44.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 404; Dahlström 2003, pp. 45–46.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 405; Dahlström 2003, p. 46.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 405; Dahlström 2003, pp. 47–48.

Sources

Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16397-1.
Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
Layton, Robert (1993) [1965]. Sibelius. (The Master Musicians Series) (4th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0028713222.

External links

Seven Runeberg Songs, Op. 13: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Jean Sibelius

Symphonies

Kullervo (1892)
Symphony No. 1 (1899, rev. 1900)
Symphony No. 2 (1902)
Symphony No. 3 (1907)
Symphony No. 4 (1911)
Symphony No. 5 (1915, rev. 1916, 1919)
Symphony No. 6 (1923)
Symphony No. 7 (1924)
Symphony No. 8 (mid 1920s–c. 1938, abandoned)

Concertante

Violin Concerto (1904, rev. 1905)
Two Serenades (1912–1913)
Two Serious Melodies (1914–1915)
Six Humoresques (1917–1918, No. 1 rev. 1940)
Suite for Violin and String Orchestra (1929)

Tone poems

En saga (1892, rev. 1902)
Spring Song (1894, rev. 1895)
The Wood Nymph (1895)
Lemminkäinen Suite
- 1895, rev. 1897, 1900, 1939; includes The Swan of Tuonela
Finlandia (1899)
Pohjola's Daughter (1906)
Nightride and Sunrise (1909)
The Dryad (1910)
The Bard (1913)
Luonnotar (1913)
The Oceanides (1914, rev. 1914)
Tapiola (1926)

Opera & theatre

The Building of the Boat (1893–1894, abandoned)
The Maiden in the Tower (1896)
King Christian II (1898)
Kuolema
- 1903; includes Valse triste
Pelléas et Mélisande (1905)
Belshazzar's Feast (1906)
Swanwhite (1908)
The Lizard (1909)
The Language of the Birds (1911)
Scaramouche (1913)
Everyman (1916)
The Tempest (1925)

Cantatas

Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1894
Cantata for the Coronation of Nicholas II (1896)
Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1897
The Origin of Fire (1902, rev. 1910)
The Captive Queen (1906)
My Own Land (1918)
Song of the Earth (1919)
Hymn of the Earth (1920)
Väinämöinen's Song (1926)

Other voice(s) & orchestra

The Rapids-Rider's Brides (1897)
The Breaking of the Ice on the Oulu River (1899)
Snöfrid (1900)
Marjatta (1905, abandoned)
Impromptu (1902, rev. 1910)
The Raven (1910, abandoned)

Other orchestral

Overture in E major (1891)
Ballet Scene (1891)
Karelia Suite (1893)
Rakastava (1894, arr. 1912)
Scènes historiques I (1899, arr. 1911)
Overture in A minor (1902)
Romance in C major (1904)
Cassazione (1904, rev. 1905)
Pan and Echo (1906)
In memoriam (1909, rev. 1910)
Scènes historiques II (1912)
Suite mignonne (1921)
Suite champêtre (1922)
Suite caractéristique (1922)

String quartets

String Quartet in E-flat major (1885)
String Quartet in A minor (1889)
String Quartet in B-flat major (1890)
String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae (1909)
Andante festivo (1922, orch. 1938)

Piano trios

Piano Trio in A minor, Hafträsk (1886)
Piano Trio in D major, Korpo (1887)
Piano Trio in C major, Lovisa (1888)

Other chamber

Water Droplets (c. 1875–1881)
Pieces for brass septet (1889–1899)
Piano Quintet (1890)
Malinconia (1900)
Violin Sonatina (1915)

Piano

Six Impromptus (1893)
Piano Sonata (1893)
Ten Pieces, Op. 24 (1895–1903)
Kyllikki (1904)
Three Sonatinas (1912)
The Bells of Kallio Church (1912, arr. 1912)
Two Rondinos (1912)
Five Pieces, The Trees, Op. 75 (1914)
Five Pieces, The Flowers, Op. 85 (1916–1917)
Five Esquisses (1929)

Songs

Seven Runeberg Songs, Op. 13 (1891–1892)
"Serenad", JS 168 (1894–1895)
Six Songs, Op. 36 (1899–1900)
Five Songs, Op. 37 (1900–1902)
Seven Songs, Op. 17 (1891–1904)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1903–1904; includes "Höstkväll")
Six Songs, Op. 50 (1906)
Two Songs, Op. 35 (1908)
"Kom nu hit, död", Op. 60/1 (1909, orch. 1957)
"Arioso", Op. 3 (1911)
Five Christmas Songs, Op. 1 (1897–1913; includes "Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt")
Six Runeberg Songs, Op. 90 (1917)