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

Work for male choir by Veljo Tormis, written 1985.

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'

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