• Year of composition: The score indicates Stockholm, 1898; 24 April [for No. 5], 29 April [for No. 7 (No. 8)], and 23 April at the end of the 'Partitur scenen' [Score onstage]
• Work category: Incidental music
• Text author: Daniel Fallström (1858-1937)
• First performed: Mezzo-soprano soloist: Matilda Linden, née Jungstedt
• Duration: Approx. 40-50 min
• Detailed duration: Uncertain. Spoken parts are missing.

Instrumentation

3*.2.2.2 / 4.3.4*.1 / timp, perc, 2 hp, org / str [also string quartet]
(picc, bass tbn)
perc: bass dr, cymb, sn dr, tam, bells

Solo voices/choir

Solo voice: 1 mezzo-soprano
Mixed choir: S.A.A.T.T.B.B.

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Epilogue No. 16 (score, score onstage, piano reduction, song part, orchestral parts)

Description of work

Prelude: Poco Adagio F minor 4/4 (C)
The curtain rises

No 1. Stor vånda och sorg i landet nu är [mezzo-soprano solo]
[No 1b.] Declamation
No 2. Has Sven Elfson i Isale [Has Sven Elofson in Isale (… Read moreprobably referring to Sven Elofsson, b. 1534, later Private Secretary to the Swedish Sovereign)] (instrumental): Andante A minor 3/4
No 3. Gustaf vid Mora kyrka [Gustaf at Mora Church (instrumental)]: Slow and solemn C major 4/4 (C)
No 4a. Allegro (varying key signatures) 6/8
No 4b. Moderato A major 4/4 (C)
Gustaf entré [Entry Gustaf] "Hell Gustaf Wasa Svea Rikes hövidsmen
No 5. Gustaf Vasas intåg i Stockholm [Gustaf Vasa’s entry/procession into Stockholm] (instrumental): Allegro moderato F major
No 6. [Orgel på scenen (Organ onstage)]. Mäster Olofs och Peder Ga... [oläsligt; troligen Galle] disputation [the debate between Olaus Petri and Peder Ga… (illegible; probably referring to Peder Galle)]: Molto moderato
No 7. [originally No. 8 in the score, but changed in pencil to No. 7.] Gustaf tager afsked av riksens ständer. Polonaise [Gustaf takes his leave of the Estates of Sweden. Polonaise] (instrumental): Andante F minor 6/8
No 8. Gustafianska grafkoret i Upsala Domkyrka [Gustavian burial vault in Uppsala Cathedral]

[For the complete storyline (in Swedish), see the Swedish page of the same work.] Collapse

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Work comment

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