Orchestra SKU: BR.SON-618
Lemminkainen-Suite op.22 Fruhfassung. Composed by Jean Sibelius. Edited by Tuija Wicklund. Linen. Complete Works. Sibelius No. Zero?
Late-romantic; Early modern. Complete Works. 336 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 618. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-618). ISBN 9790004803202. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Whoever is looking for orchestral works in several movements by Sibelius before the seven officially numbered symphonies will run into Kullervo op. 7, as well as Lemminkainen op. 22. Sibelius follows a cyclical concept in these four tone poems, so that Lemminkainen, owing to its time of origin, can truly be labeled as his Symphony No. Zero. The previously unprinted early versions, presented in the respective volume of the Complete Edition for the first time, can be dated to the year 1895/96. The first revision was made in 1897, after the world premiere. Only after this premiere did Sibelius write his First Symphony before he again revised the Lemminkainen scores some of them much later and had them published.