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Kalevala musci started to fly… with German wings! Filip von Schantz, Pacius

Kalevala musci started to fly… with German wings! Filip von Schantz, Pacius. Vesa Matteo Piludu, 2010. Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Arts Musicology University of Helsinki. Filip von Schantz and Fredrik Pacius 1860 .

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Kalevala musci started to fly… with German wings! Filip von Schantz, Pacius

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  1. Kalevala musci started to fly… with German wings! Filip von Schantz, Pacius Vesa Matteo Piludu, 2010 Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Arts Musicology University of Helsinki

  2. Filip von Schantz and Fredrik Pacius 1860 • Axel Gabriel Ingelius (1822-1868) included a scherzo finnico in his symphony (1847): 5/4 metre – allusion to runo singning • Filip von Schantz Kullervo-alkusoiton –Kullervo’s prelude or overture (1860): first piece of romantic music clearly inspired by Kalevala • Symmerical structure • Recapitulation of opening section • Central European models

  3. Pacius • German • The father of Finnish Music • Composed the National hymn Our Land

  4. Fredrik Pacius The Princess of Cyprus (1860) • Princessan af Cypern • ZachariasTopelius’s libretto, 1860 • Musical play in Swedish • An incredible mix of Finnish and Greek Mythology • Lemminkäinen’s loverboy-myth transferred in Ancient Greece • Very little musical reference to Kalevala’s tradition • Kalevala was still considered too exotic and primitive • It was necessary the blessing of Classic mythology • Humorous references to National mythology

  5. Lemminkäinen the womanizer Nordic tourist in Ancient Greece • Impulsive, womanizer • Hot tempered magician-warrior • Nordic Don Juan • Topelius “The dream of Saari (the Island) is a Viking reminscense of Mediterranean” • Lemminkäinen arrives on Cyprus, abducts Chryseis, daughter of Aphrodite, and sails with her to … Finland (!), where he conjures up a Greek temple with columns for his bride • But Chryseis (a kind of Greek Kyllikki) is homesick and dies

  6. Karl Müller-Berghaus (1890) • German, has worked in Turku • Opera Die Kalewainen in Pochjola • In 4 parts • Printed • Only a concert performance

  7. Kalevala’s dreaming… in USA • In 1880 the composer E. H. Krehbiel and the writer Lafcadio Hearn were strongly interested in a Kalevala opera • According to Hearn Kalevala was the most musical epic and Väinämöinen more talented than Orpheus • The opera should be more glorious than Wagner’s one … but was not realized by the enthusiast authors

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