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- Editor: Sebastian Göring (submitted 2001-06-12). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 95 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Only for US distribution.
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: There is an error in the Finnish text: in bar 10 of the first verse, sou should read suo (which also enables it to rhyme). Joulus, which at one time I took to be an error, is apparently correct - an abbreviated form of joulusi (your Christmas): thanks to Pekka Horttanainen for that information. -Mick Swithinbank See the discussion page for full description.
General Information
Title: En etsi valtaa, loistoa
Composer: Jean Sibelius
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Carol
Language: Finnish
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: The Finnish text in this score ("En etsi valtaa, loistoa") is a free translation of a poem in Swedish (quoted below) by Zacharias Topelius, and it was the Swedish version that Sibelius actually set, Topelius and Sibelius both being Swedish-speaking Finns. (Thanks to Andreas Stenberg for this information). The most impressive-sounding of the various translations of the title which are in circulation is 'We ask for nothing rich or rare'. The German text which is included in the score above is quite a faithful translation of the Swedish version. I have provided a reasonably literal English translation of the Finnish one. -Mick Swithinbank
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Original text and translations
Swedish text Original Swedish text set by Sibelius by Zacharias Topelius (singable, as in score above) |
English translation The following verse translation is by Ida Kaskinen (1924) Translation by Mick Swithinbank Translation by Andrew Mackie |