Kuolema | |
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Incidental music by Jean Sibelius | |
The composer in 1904, by Albert Edelfelt
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Catalogue | Op. 44 |
Composed | 1903 |
Performed | 2 December 1903 |
Movements | 6 |
Scoring | string orchestra |
Kuolema (Finnish: “Death”), Op. 44, is incidental music for orchestra by Jean Sibelius for a play of that name by Arvid Järnefelt, structured in six movements, originally scored for a string orchestra, bass drum and a bell. He conducted the first performance at Helsinki's National Theatre on 2 December 1903. He drew individual works from the score and revised them under two opus numbers: