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Kullervo is an eponymous 1860 play by Aleksis Kivi. [1] An English translation, by Douglas Robinson, was published in 1993: Aleksis Kivi's Heath Cobblers and Kullervo. [clarification needed] Kullervo is an eponymous 1892 choral symphony in five movements for full orchestra, two vocal soloists, and male choir by Jean Sibelius. It was opus 7 for ...
The Story of Kullervo is a collection of several texts, including a prose version of the Kullervo cycle in Elias Lönnrot's Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala, written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1914 to 1915. That was an unsettled period for the author and this is thought to be ...
Kullervo (sometimes referred to as the Kullervo Symphony), Op. 7, is a five-movement symphonic work for soprano, [a] baritone, male choir, and orchestra written from 1891–1892 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister Níniel – of which Túrin is the hero: a figure that might be said (by people who like that sort of thing, though it is not very useful) to be derived from elements in Sigurd the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo. [T 14]
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Kullervo is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. Kullervo may also refer to: Compositions. Kullervo, symphonic poem by Leevi ...
The fresco at Old Student House. Kullervo Sets Off for War (Finnish: Kullervon sotaanlähtö) is a painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela from the year 1901. He painted the subject in tempera painting (89 × 128 cm) [1] and as a fresco (355 × 687 cm) which is located in the music hall of Old Student House of Helsinki University.
Original – Kullervo, a character in Finnish mythology and the Kalevala, cursing cows, turning them into bears so that he can have revenge on a woman who tormented him. Kullervo grew up thinking his family was dead, raised by his family's "killer", was sold into slavery, unknowingly had sexual relations with his sister (leading to her suicide ...