The Seventeenth Canto of the "Kalevala" ("Kalevalan" seitsemästoista runo)

Year of creation

1985

Commissioned by

Commission from Estonian Ministry of Culture requested by State Academic Male Choir for their tour of Finland

Publisher

Fennica Gehrman

Text author

soome rahvuseepose "Kalevala" 17. runo (soome keeles)

Language

Finnish

Voices/instruments

2 tenors, 2 basses, narrator, male choir, folk instruments: 5-stringed Finnish zithers kantele, 7 shaman drums, 3 wooden bells (little, medium, big), rattle, buzz-disk, bullroarer

Duration

42'

Esiettekanne: Tallinna 22. Keskkool 16.05.1985
Conductor

Olev Oja


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