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
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
In San Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But Wainamoinen considered the case and then said: 'Is there any one here who will go to Tuonela, to the Deathland, for the auger of Tuoni, that I may mend my sledge with it?'
From Finnish Legends for English Children by R. Eivind
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