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The version usually heard today has lyrics written by Koskenniemi in 1940 and was first performed in 1941. Sibelius himself arranged the hymn for choral performances. [4] Today, during modern performances of Finlandia in its entirety, a choir is sometimes involved, singing the Finnish lyrics with the hymn section. [5]
Georgia Harkness "A Song of Peace: A Patriotic Song", [1] [2] also known by its incipit, "This is my song", [3] is a poem written by Lloyd Stone (1912–1993). Lloyd Stone's words were set to the Finlandia hymn melody composed by Jean Sibelius in an a cappella arrangement by Ira B. Wilson that was published by the Lorenz Publishing Company in 1934.
Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, and was the last of seven pieces performed as an accompaniment to a tableau depicting episodes from Finnish history. [6]
[12] [13] In 2014, there was a citizens' initiative about choosing the Finlandia Hymn as the national anthem, [14] and in 2016 members of the National Coalition Party began campaigning to stop using "Maamme" in favour of the Finlandia Hymn, however, opinions were not unanimous in the party, [15] and the campaign fell short of its goal. [16]
In Finnish, the song's opening lines are "En etsi valtaa, loistoa" and the song was originally published in Finnish in 1909, probably with lyrics by Martti Korpilahti , and was adopted in the 1986 Finnish hymnal, with lyrics by Niilo Rauhala in 1984. However, the older Finnish language-version had already become popular, and is commonly sung.
Personent hodie in the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones, image combined from two pages of the source text. "Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jacobus Finno (Jaakko Suomalainen), a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha. [1]
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" Sydämeni laulu" ("Song of My Heart"), Op. 18/6 (1898, arr. for SATB 1904) [6] The lyrics for Nos. 2–3 come from Finland's national epic , the Kalevala , while Nos. 1 and 4 draw on its companion book of poetry, the Kanteletar ; finally, for Nos. 5–6 Sibelius set excerpts from the novel Seven Brothers ( Seitsemän veljestä ) by Aleksis Kivi .
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