Serenad
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| "Serenad" | |
|---|---|
| Orchestral song by Jean Sibelius | |
 The composer (c. 1895) | |
| Catalogue | JS 168 |
| Text | Serenad by Stagnelius[1] |
| Language | Swedish |
| Composed | c. 1894–1895 |
| Duration | 4.5 mins.[1] |
| Premiere | |
| Date | 17 April 1895[1] |
| Location | Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| Conductor | Jean Sibelius |
| Performers | |
"Serenad" (in English: "Serenade"; in Finnish: "Serenadi"),[a] JS 168, is an art song for baritone and orchestra written in c. 1894–1895[2] by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which is a setting of the eponymous poem by the Swedish poet Erik Johan Stagnelius, premiered on 17 April in Helsinki, with Sibelius conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Society; the soloist was the Finnish baritone Abraham Ojanperä.[1]
The "Serenad", however, remained unpublished and was never performed again in Sibelius's lifetime, apparently because he wished to revise it (however, a planned revision in 1910 never materialized).[3] In 1984, however, the composer's estate agreed to permit its recording.[4] The song was first published in Volume VIII/1 of the Jean Sibelius Works (JSW) critical edition,[1] an ongoing collaborative project involving the National Library of Finland, the German firm of Breitkopf & Härtel, and the Sibelius Society of Finland.[1]
