from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Translation © by Lars Huldén (b. 1926)

Language: Swedish (Svenska)  after the Finnish (Suomi) 
Levnadsvise Väinämöinen
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Note: the translator wrote a final stanza just for Bergman's setting. It is below.

Composition:

    Set to music by Erik Bergman (1911 - 2006), "Väinämöinen", op. 147 (2000) [ narrator, 4 soli, mixed chorus ], confirmed with a CD booklet

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This text was added to the website: 2018-11-19
Line count: 266
Word count: 1195