Orchestra (2(2picc).2.2.2 - 4.3.3.0 - timp.perc - str) SKU: BR.PB-5582
Lemminkainen ja saaren neidot - Urtext based on the Complete Edition Jean Sibelius Works (JSW). Composed by Jean Sibelius. Edited by Tuija Wicklund. Orchestra; stapled. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Symphonic poem; Suite; Late-romantic; Early modern. Full score. 84 pages. Duration 17'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5582. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5582). ISBN 9790004213926. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkainen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en suite through the complete edition of Jean Sibelius Works only in 2013.In summer 1894 Sibelius went to Central Europe, carrying among others a plan for an opera freely based on the Kalevala in his mind. But during this trip he reassessed his composing: I think I have found my old self again, musically speaking. I think I really am a tone painter and a poet. As a result he abandoned his opera plans, but musical parts may have found their way into the Lemminkainen pieces which he started composing during that time. Lemminkainen became popular from the beginning and has attained a fixed position in the concert repertoire.A critic opined on Lemminkainen and the Maidens on the Island: We do not hesitate to award this tone painting of Lemminkainen's erotic emotional world the first prize among all the young composer's works..
