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12 stringed Karelian kantele in the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia. Traditional music of Karelia is a form of music performed among Karelian people. It has been less influenced by Germanic elements than traditional Finnish music, which is why many Finnish musicians and other creators have used it as source of inspiration.
Mariya Vladimirovna Melentyeva (Russian: Мари́я Влади́мировна Меле́нтьева; 24 January 1924 – 2 July 1943) was a Soviet partisan from Karelia who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 25 September 1943 for her resistance activities. [1]
Later, during World War II, it resurged in popularity among anti-fascist partisan fighters, most prominently among Yugoslav and Soviet partisans. [citation needed] The song entered the official canon of Soviet songs when the director of the Red Army choir Aleksandr Aleksandrov, together with the poet Sergei Alymov , introduced the song into the ...
The music of the anthem was composed by Alexander Beloborodov (composer) and in most parts follows the melody of the Finnish traditional song "Karjalan kunnailla". The Russian lyrics were written by Armas Mishin [ ru ] and Ivan Kostin [ ru ] , whilst the Finnish lyrics were written by Mishin alone, and the Karelian lyrics by Alexander Volkov.
The best known regional anthems in Finland are Karjalaisten laulu (anthem of North Karelia and South Karelia) and Nälkämaan laulu (anthem of Kainuu). [ 1 ] The oldest regional anthem in Finland, Savolaisen laulu , was born out of patriotism when laws limiting publishing and Finnish student nations were passed in the Grand Duchy of Finland in ...
Karjalan kunnailla (Karelian: Karjalan kumbuzil), lit. ' On the Hills of Karelia ', is a Finnish folk song.Lyrics were created by Valter Juva [fi; it; fr] in 1902. Karelian Iivo Härkönen [fi; olo; ca; ru] also published an early Karelianist adaptation of Juva's original Finnish lyrics in the Livvi-Karelian language of East Karelia.
Partisan Song or Partisan's Song may refer to: Partizaner lid (disambiguation), Yiddish World War II songs; Chant des Partisans, French World War II song;
Sibelius photographed in 1891, Vienna. Karelia Suite, Op. 11 is a subset of pieces from the longer Karelia Music (named after the region of Karelia) written by Jean Sibelius in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association and premiered, with Sibelius conducting, at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, on 23 November of that year.