August Söderman (1832−1876)
"Min vän är den bästa"
- Year of composition: 23 April, 1872 (according to Jeanson, p. 289)
- Work category: Mixed choir a cappella
- Text author: Zacharias Topelius (according the version for men's choir)
- Dedication: To Miss Eugenie Claëson (according to Abraham Lundquist's edition)
- Duration: Approx. 1-5 min
Solo voices/choir
S.A.T.B.
Examples of printed editions
• Sex visor i folkton, Sånger för blandad kör N:o 6 [Six songs in folk tone, Songs for mixed choir no. 6], Abr. Lundquist, Musikförlag, Abr. L. 4781
• Elkan & Schildknecht, printed in 1873 (No ed. no.)
Literature
See Gunnar Jeanson: "August Söderman. En svensk tondiktares liv och verk", 1926
Description of work
Allegro E minor 2/4
Work comment
The song also exists in a setting for men's choir a cappella (T.T.B.B.). See separate post for that version.
Libretto/text
Min vän är den bästa,
förmer än de flesta
