Church music

Hymn dedicated to Jaeger-soldier

Hengellinen soitto Bembölestä (Spiritual Hymn from Bemböle) is a completely fictitious composition. In spite of its modal, folk-songlike style, it is not based on any archaid folk tune. The composer of the piece is from Espoo, in which a hamlet …

At the beginning of the composition the three-two time (3/2) and six-stroke phrases point to the Holy Trinity. The harmony, born from a round, gets fresh colour when the retrograded theme comes in (probably as a demand to prove the skill). In the …

"Ei mitään multa puutu" was originally composed for a mixed choir, to the lyrics by Simo Korpela (d. 1936).  The lyrics is based on the Psalm 23 in the Bible. Thus it is a piece of spiritual music. The Korpela poem has two verses, but the …

Sibelius’s first piece expressly for the organ was written for the visit of the King and Queen of Sweden in 1925. Originally it was intended as the fourth movement of a five-movement organ suite that was never completed.Intrada is one of the …