Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)

Fosterlandspsalm

Rudén no. 55

Print
  • 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

Bevara, Gud, vårt fosterland,
håll öfver det din starkhetshand,
var du dess hägn i strid och frid,
i sorgens och i glädjens tid.

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