• Work category: Mixed choir with solo voice(s) and orchestra
  • Text author: Viktor Rydberg
  • Duration: Approx. 15-20 min

Instrumentation

2.2.2.2. / 4.2.3 / timp, hp / str

Solo voices/choir

Soloists: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor
Mixed choir

Examples of printed editions

Levande musikarv, Stockholm 2013. Critical edition by Mats Persson.

  • Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket

Literature

Wallner, Bo: Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid (Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm, 1991)

Description of work


Work comment

During the first years of the 1890s, Wilhelm Stenhammar broadened the structural scope of his compositions, and Snöfrid constitutes an important stage in this development. As a teenager, he had

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Libretto/text

Choir
I kvällens mörker och stormens larm
han hörde en röst vid sin fönsterkarm:

Snöfrid
'Gunnar,
nu går det böljor över sjö!
Kom, jag vill se om din håg är varm,
om mod kan bo i en gossebarm:
Kom, gunga på Read more


Media files

Edition Swedish Musical Heritage

  • Scores
    • Snöfrid - Score (pdf - 1.6 MB  |  Downloaded 4139 times)
      Edition: Levande Musikarv
    Sheet music
    • Snöfrid - Parts (zip - 2.6 MB  |  Downloaded 3017 times)
      Edition: Levande Musikarv

References

  • Piano reduction
    • Snöfrid (43 pages, pdf - 5.5 MB  |  Downloaded 3090 times)
      Edition: Det nordiske forlag, Köpenhamn
    Autograph