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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 5 sections |
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| Composition Year | 1892 (completion) |
| Genre Categories | Symphonic poems; For 2 voices, male chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; |
Contents |
Complete Score (CA)
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| Work Title | Kullervo |
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| Alternative. Title | (Symphony or tone poem?) for soprano (or mezzo?), baritone, male choir and orchestra. |
| Name Translations | クレルヴォ交響曲; Kullervo (Sibelius); 库勒沃; Куллерво; Κουλέρβο |
| Name Aliases | Kullervo, Op. 7; Kullervo, op. 7; Куллерво (Сибелиус); Κουλέρβο, έργο 7 |
| Authorities | WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 179892923; LCCN: n90619253; BNF: 13919265n |
| Composer | Sibelius, Jean |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.7 |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IJS 29 |
| Key | E minor |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 5 sections:
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1892 (completion) |
| First Performance. | 1892-04-28 |
| First Publication. | 1961 - Wiesbaden: Breitkopf und Härtel (facsimile of copyist manuscript) |
| Librettist | Composer, based on the Kalevala |
| Language | Finnish |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 70-80 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Early 20th century |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | Voices: soprano, baritone, male chorus (TTBB) Orchestra: 2 flutes, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba timpani, triangle, cymbals, strings |
| External Links | Wikipedia article |
Also see Glenda Dawn Doss' book "Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland" (Google previewable) and (if one has access) her preface to the 2005 Urtext edition (which also has a somewhat different text- as in vocal part, not just music- with explanation in the preface. Sibelius made his own changes to the tale of Kullervo; a few words here or there which however do change the sense of some lines in major ways in e.g. the middle of the 3rd movement, a word meaning money to a word meaning desire, for example.) (The decision to use male choir rather than full chorus was reached, btw, at a suggestion from Wasenius (iirc), but Sibelius agreed.) Goss describes the appearance of the manuscript of the last two movements in such fashion that it's something of a wonder that any performances occurred before 1961 not conducted by Sibelius (one assumes the copyist at least made readable, if perhaps very error-filled, copies; the full score, however, seems to have been completed in such a hurry for the - even so! - delayed premiere, of Sibelius' first really major work and Finland's first major choral symphony on a Finnish text - that, as Goss describes them, those two movements in particular - really are a mess.- ES 3rd movement also published separately in 1961.
| Symphonies by Jean Sibelius | |
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