Fredrik Pacius (1809-1891)

Vårt land ("Vårt land, vårt land, vårt fosterland") [Maamme / 'Our Land'; i.e., the national anthem of Finland]

Print
  • Year of composition: 1848
  • Work category: Mixed choir a cappella
  • Text author: Johan Ludvig Runeberg [1804-1877] (from the i dikteposet "Fänrik Ståls sägner" [The Tales of Ensign Stål])
  • Duration: Approx. 1-5 min

Solo voices/choir

S.A.T.B.

Examples of printed editions

• Svenska Skolkvartetten. 100 fyrstämmiga sånger, 1:sta samlingen, [Svenska Skolkvartetten. 100 four-part songs, Volume 1] Abr. Lundquist, Musikförlag (Ed. no. is missing) [1952]
• Blandet Kor II. 50 Sange af danske og fremmede Komponister samlede og udgivne af Sophus Halle, Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Forlag, Ed. nr. 13849 [Mixed choir II. 50 songs by Danish and foreign composers, collected and published by Sophus Halle], Wilhelm Hansen, Musik-Forlag, Ed. no. 13849

Description of work

Abr. Lundquist: Maestoso A major 3/4
Wilhelm Hansen: C major


Work comment

This song is the national anthem of Finland ("Maamme").

It also exists in a setting for male choir a cappella (T.T.B.B.). See separate post for that setting.

The same lyrics were also set to music by both Jacob Axel Josephson and Fredrik Eimele. See separate posts for those versions.


Libretto/text

1. Vårt land, vårt land, vårt fosterland,
ljud högt, o dyra ord! 

2. Vårt land är fattigt, skall så bli
för den, som guld begär 

3. Vi älska [sic] våra strömmars brus
och våra bäckars språng

11. [sic] Din blomning, sluten än i knopp,
skall mogna ur sitt tvång 


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