• Year of composition: 1826?
• Work category: Voice and piano
• Text author: Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846)
• Dedication: Esaias Tegnér
• Duration: Approx. 1-5 min

Examples of printed editions

• Lithograph by C. Müller, Stockholm (1826, according to an annotation in pencil)
• Elkan & Schildknecht, E & S 897, published in 1882 (referring to the extended edition ’Tolf Sånger ur Frithiofs Saga satta i musik och tillegnade Frithiofs skald af B. Crusell’ [Twelve songs from Frithiof’s Saga, set to music and dedicated to Frithiof’s poet by B. Crusell]; in that edition, this song bears no. 6)
• Hans Ahlborg Musik (copy of Elkan & Schildknecht’s edition, copied in 2008)

Location for score and part material

Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Description of work

Introduzione: Andante grave E minor 4/4 (C) 15 bars
(’Efter Riturnellen declameras stycket utan Musik ända till stället ’som kallbräckt klinga de åror springa.’ – hvarefter följer’ [After the Ritornello the poem is to be recited without music until the line ’som kallbräckt klinga de åror springa.’, after which the music continues]):
Allegretto C major 4/4 (C) 14 bars, Andante sostenuto E major 3/4 2 bars/:20 bars:/, Sista versen E minor 4/4 (C) 29 bars, Andante sostenuto 4 bars, E major 3/4 13 bars, in total 97 bars

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