• Year of composition: The autograph at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket is dated 4 November, 1859 (the cover page exists in 2 copies, one of which is dated 5 November, 1859)
• Work category: Male choir and orchestra
• Text author: Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
• Dedication: P. B. (according to autograph)
• First performed: Gothenburg, 10 November, 1859 (100 years since Schiller's birth). The Stjernströmska truppen [the Stjernström theatre company] (enligt Jeanson, 1926)
• Duration: Approx. 5-10 min
• Detailed duration: 10 minutes (according to a broadcast on the Swedish Radio P2 on 25 August, 2003, with the Swedish male choir Orphei Drängar and Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester [The Swedish Radio Symphoy Orchestra]. Conductor: Manfred Honeck. From a concert on 5 April, 2003, in the Universitetsaulan [the auditorium of Uppsala University], Uppsala)

Instrumentation

2.2.2.2 / 2.2.3.0 / timp / str

Solo voices/choir

T.T.B.B.

Examples of printed editions

Musikaliska Konstföreningen, M. K. 50 (1891)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Z/Sv (score and sketch)

Literature

Jeanson, Gunnar: August Söderman. En svensk tondiktares liv och verk, 1926

Description of work

Lebhaft B-flat major 4/4 (C)

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