Database of manuscripts

Work

  • Composer: Känd, Herman
  • Years: 12.10.1905 - 08.06.1952
  • Title: Kalevipoeg
  • Genre: Operas
  • Instrumentation: soloists, recitors, mixed choir, male choir, symphony orchestra
  • Number of movements: 5
  • Titles of movements:
    Prelude
    Act I
    - Kalev's Sons Notice the Disappearing
    - Kalevipoeg on Father's Grave
    Act II
    - Piece of Island Maiden
    Act III
    - Dance of the Sorcerer
    - Death of Tuuslar
    Act IV
    - Buying the Sword of Kalevipoeg
    - At Finnish Smith's Place
    - Drinking for Celebration and Murder
    - Malediction of the Finnish Smith
    Act V
    - Strength of the Kalevipoeg's Sword
    - Kalevipoeg's Mother Reveals Herself in Sleep and Warns About the Sword
    - Finnish Smith's Malediction Is Carried Out
    - Kalevipoeg as the Hell Watchman
  • Librettist: Herman Känd after Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's epic "Kalevipoeg"
  • Incipit (lyrics): Karu oli kaeras käinud, mesipuilla võõrsil olnud, põtra nähtud põllu ääres, hunte hulga karjamaalla
  • Year: 1936.

Manuscripts


  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Piano score
  • Composer: Känd, Herman
  • Work: Kalevipoeg
  • Number of pages: 232
  • Date:
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_7858 M 136:2/13

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