Male voices with/without
accomp.
SKU:
BR.CHB-5370
Urtext
based on the Complete
Edition Jean Sibelius
Works (JSW). Composed
by Jean Sibelius. Edited
by Sakari Ylivuori.
Choir; stapled.
Chor-Bibliothek (Choral
Library). Song; Early
modern; Late-romantic.
Sheet Music. Breitkopf
and Haertel #CHB 5370.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.CHB-5370).
ISBN
9790004413005. 7.5 x 10.5
inches. Latin.
In
1896, Sibelius wrote Hymn
(Op. 21), also known by
its initial words Natus
in curas, for the
unveiling of the
sepulchral monument of
Josef Pippingskold
(1825-1892), professor of
obstetrics at the
Imperial Alexander
University in Finland
(presently the University
of Helsinki). The Latin
text for Hymn was written
for the occasion by
Fridolf Gustafsson
(1853-1924), professor of
Roman literature at the
University. Sibelius
worked as acting music
teacher at the University
at the time, and as part
of his duties at the
ceremony he conducted a
small ensemble consisting
of singers from the male
choirs Akademiska
Sangforeningen and Muntra
Musikanter. According to
the report in
Hufvudstadsbladet on the
following day, the simple
unveiling ceremony was
given a particularly
impressive ending by a
hymn composed for the
ceremony by Jean Sibelius
in an old Italian style.
The work was included in
a choral collection
published in 1899, for
which Sibelius made small
revisions, mostly by
interchanging the
inner-voices in some
passages and reworking
the ending by extending
the last phrase. This
version was published in
the Complete Edition on
which the current
practical edition is
based.
