Gabriel Branting (1799−1881)

Bönen ("Med bönens qvist i purpurmunden") ur Fyrastämmiga Sånger för Sopran, Alt, Tenor och Bas [The prayer. 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: 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

Parts material (incomplete) can be found in the collections of the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Description of work

Andante sostenuto D-flat major 4/4 (C)

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

Med bönens qvist [sic] i purpurmunden
en menlös dufva far, en menlös dufva far 
från jorden upp, då midnattsstunden
höjs i sin elfvenchar, höjs i sin elfenchar [sic]