Two Songs, Op. 35 (Sibelius)

Six Songs, Op. 35
Song collection by Jean Sibelius
The composer (c. 1907)
Opus	35
Language	Swedish
Composed	1908 (1908)

External audio
Sung by Karita Mattila, accompanied by Ilmo Ranta [fi] (No. 1); sung by Tom Krause, accompanied by Irwin Gage (No. 2)
1) "Jubal"
2) "Teodora"

The Two Songs, Op. 35,^[a] is a collection of Swedish-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1908 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.^[b] Though considered "masterpieces", the two songs are among the "strangest" songs in Sibelius's oeuvre. "Jubal" (No. 1), furthermore, anticipates Luonnotar, the tone poem for soprano and orchestra (Op. 70, 1913).^[3]

Constituent songs

Ordered by catalogue number, the Op. 35 songs are as follows:

"Jubal", Op. 35/1; text by the Swedish poet Ernst Josephson^[4]
"Teodora", Op. 35/2; text by the Finnish poet Bertel Gripenberg^[5]

The songs were first published in 1910 by the German firm of Breitkopf & Härtel. The table below provides additional information about each song:

Song	Tempo	Time	Key	Premiere				Ref.
Song	Tempo	Time	Key	Soloist	Pianist	Date	Venue	Ref.
No. 1	Tranquillo assai			Aino Ackté	Oskar Merikanto	24 September 1908 (1908-09-24)	Finnish National Theatre	^[6]
No. 2	Moderato	³ ₄		—	—	—	—	^[7]

Notes, references, and sources

Notes

^ Because Sibelius's Op. 35 songs are sung in Swedish, this article gives preference to each song's native title, rather than the English translation.
^ All but a few of Sibelius's songs are settings of Swedish-language poems (quantitatively, his favorite poets were Ernst Josephson, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, and Karl August Tavaststjerna [fi])^[1] and are with piano accompaniment. While many are of high quality, they largely have been neglected outside the Nordic realm, due to the limited coverage (in terms of number of speakers) of Swedish (relative to, for example, German or French).^[2]

References

^ Layton 1993, pp. 160–161.
^ Layton 1993, pp. 159–160.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 191; Layton 1993, pp. 161, 168.
^ Barnett 2007, p. 406; Dahlström 2003, pp. 154–155.
^ Barnett 2007, pp. 192, 406; Dahlström 2003, pp. 154–155.
^ Dahlström 2003, p. 154.
^ Dahlström 2003, p. 155.

Sources

Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16397-1.
Dahlström, Fabian (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
Layton, Robert (1993) . Sibelius. (The Master Musicians Series) (4th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0028713222.

External links

Two Songs, Op. 35: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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Symphonies	Kullervo (1892) Symphony No. 1 (1899, rev. 1900) Symphony No. 2 (1902) Symphony No. 3 (1907) Symphony No. 4 (1911) Symphony No. 5 (1915, rev. 1916, 1919) Symphony No. 6 (1923) Symphony No. 7 (1924) Symphony No. 8 (mid 1920s–c. 1938, abandoned)
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Tone poems	En saga (1892, rev. 1902) Spring Song (1894, rev. 1895) The Wood Nymph (1895) Lemminkäinen Suite 1895, rev. 1897, 1900, 1939; includes The Swan of Tuonela Finlandia (1899) Pohjola's Daughter (1906) Nightride and Sunrise (1909) The Dryad (1910) The Bard (1913) Luonnotar (1913) The Oceanides (1914, rev. 1914) Tapiola (1926)
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Other voice(s) & orchestra	The Rapids-Rider's Brides (1897) The Breaking of the Ice on the Oulu River (1899) Snöfrid (1900) Marjatta (1905, abandoned) Impromptu (1902, rev. 1910) The Raven (1910, abandoned)
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