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]
- 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)…
Libretto/text
[1.] En ängel är den sköna Vår
[2.] Narcissen vaknar på sin vall