Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1250159 By Helga Ragnars and Knut Rygnestad. By Guðfinna Jónsdóttir and Knut Rygnestad. Classical,Contemporary,Folk. Score. 5 pages. Knut Olav Rygnestad #844497. Published by Knut Olav Rygnestad (A0.1250159). Mannsbarn (Human Child) is about a man searching for a way past what seems to be an endless stone wall. This reflects a metaphorical search for meaning in life. He fails and collapses in despair, as a star falls from the night sky.Guðfinna Jónsdóttir (1899–1946) from Hömrum was an organist and poet who lived a quiet and isolated life in Northern Iceland. She wrote beautiful poems about her life, filled with with tragedies, death and unrequited love. In her own time her work wasn't well known outside of her hometown, and today she is more or less forgotten.In collaboration with the singer Helga Ragnarsdóttir, the composer Knut Rygnestad has set several of her poems to music for voice and piano, with the aim of making them better known in Iceland and throughout the world. The project received funding from the Norwegian Arts Council and Hljóðritasjóður RannÃs, and an album of nine recorded songs, Ótal stjarna hröp, was released in 2023.
