Chorus a cappella
SKU:
BR.CHB-5373
Urtext
based on the Complete
Edition Jean Sibelius
Works (JSW). Composed
by Jean Sibelius. Edited
by Sakari Ylivuori.
Choir; stapled.
Chor-Bibliothek (Choral
Library). Early modern.
Sheet Music. Breitkopf
and Haertel #CHB 5373.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.CHB-5373).
ISBN
9790004413036. 7.5 x 10.5
inches. Swedish /
Finnish.
The two
choruses in Jean
Sibelius's Op. 65 are
different in both their
languages, Swedish and
Finnish, as well as their
conceptions. Man fran
slatten och havet Op. 65A
was commissioned by the
Music Committee of
Svenska Folkskolans
Vanner, a
Swedish-speaking
educational organization
which staged a singing
festival in Vaasa in June
1912. The first
performance took place in
the final concert of the
festival with about 1300
singers in total,
although a string
accompaniment had to be
used to perform the
relatively difficult
polyphonic piece.The much
simpler Kallion kirkon
kellosavel Op. 65B was
originally composed by
Sibelius as the melody
for the carillon of a
newly built church in the
district Kallio in
Helsinki. Reports from
the consecration in
September 1912, however,
named the choir conductor
Heikki Klemetti as
composer. Sibelius
therefore felt forced to
write arrangements for
piano solo and mixed
choir a cappella and
publish them. Klemetti
eventually wrote a new
text for the latter. The
current edition includes
translations of the texts
in German and English as
well as an informative
preface that is based on
the complete edition Jean
Sibelius Works, just like
the score.