The Raven (Sibelius)
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The Raven (Sibelius)
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The Raven was a projected song for soprano and orchestra that occupied the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius from 9 November to mid-December 1910, at which point he abandoned the project. The piece, a commission by the world-renowned, Finnish prima donna Aino Ackté as a novelty for her February 1911 tour through Imperial Germany, was to have set a German-language translation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 narrative poem The Raven. Sibelius had accepted reluctantly, as he had at the time been at work on—
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Abandoned orchestral song by Jean Sibelius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven_(Sibelius)
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2024-03-15T08:07:45Z
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