Tuonela
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Although one of the four movements, "The Swan of Tuonela," was a Sibelius fave, the full 45-minute score was a rarity.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2014
Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, on which U. S. word-poet Longfellow modeled his Hiawatha.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of this suite only The Swan of Tuonela, and another, noisier fragment called Lemmink�inen's Homecoming have been published and performed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from his Valse Triste and his ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela.
From Time Magazine Archive
There in Manala is anguish, Hard in Tuonela the reckoning, If she has forgot her mother, Or despised her dearest mother.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)
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