- Year of composition: Dated Edelslund, Denmark, 7 April 1906
- Work category: Voice and piano
- Text author: Johan Ludvig Runeberg
- Dedication: To professor Oscar Quensel
- Duration: 2 min
Solo voices/choir
Composed for one voice and unison choir at the piano
Examples of printed editions
Stockholm [1906]. Abr. Lundquist 3941
- Location autograph: Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek
- Possible call no. and autograph comment: 3 exemplars at UUB VMhs 184:11a. Also version in A major VMhs 184:11b. Also composition sketch dated Edelslund 7 March and 7 April 1906 VMhs 189 - Shorter version at Musik- och teaterbiblioteket, Forsell's collection
Description of work
Med innerlighet B-flat major 4/4 (C)
Work comment
Composed for the collection Musik till psalmer för skolorna, publ. by Emanuel A. Nylin and Arvid Carlstedt, Stockholm 1907. See
Hedwall, Lennart in Musikrevy 1978 no. 1, p. 8.
Libretto/text
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