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Serenade — research notes
by Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Source material — not a finished programme note. These are passages Gerald Larner gathered while researching, reproduced here as background; this file collects extracts from the composer’s own correspondence.
Serenade
Den judiska flickans sång
1888 first published in Det sjungande Finland 1888, an anthology of Finnish song, S’s first published work. Words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Den judiska from incidental music to Act II of Hjalmar Procopé’s Belsazars gästabud, Op.51 1906, revised 1907
fp Swedish Theatre Helsinki 4/11/06
also arranged as Solitude in the concert suite - melody given to viola and cello.
The Jewish girl is Leschanah, designated to kill Belshazar who falls in love with her.
From Gerald Larner’s files: “Serenade”