Gabriel Branting (1799−1881)

Vårsång [Wårsång] ("En ängel [engel] är den sköna Vår") ur Fyrastämmiga Sånger för Sopran, Alt, Tenor och Bas [Spring song. From Four-part songs for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass]

Print
  • Year of composition: Year of composition uncertain
  • Work category: Mixed choir a cappella
  • Text author: Stagnelius [referring to Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793-1823)]
  • Duration: Approx. 1-5 min

Solo voices/choir

S.A.T.B.

Examples of printed editions

Publisher's name missing (Ebeling?), as well as ed. no. (printed by Spong & Cardon, Stockholm)

Location for score and part material

Handwritten choral score can be found in the collections of the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Description of work

Un poco Allegretto D major 6/8

Work comment

Owing to the poems' general objectivity, and also to the melodic and harmonic handling of them, these songs have the character of choir rather than of soloist quartet (according to the printed music)

The collection includes:
1. Vårsång
2. Bönen
3. Floden
4. Stjernsången
5. Rosen
6. Aftonen
7. Flyttfoglarna [sic]
8. Anakreonisk sång
9. Stjernorna
10. Luften
11. Christi födelsenatt
12. Hoppet
13. Den döendes brudsång

See separate post for each song

Libretto/text

[1.] En ängel är den sköna Vår

[2.] Narcissen vaknar på sin vall