Six Runeberg Songs


The Six Runeberg Songs, Op. 90, is a collection of Swedish-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1917 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who composed them for his frequent collaborator, the Finnish soprano Ida Ekman. Each song is a setting of a poem by the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and of the set, "Norden" generally is considered the best.

Constituent songs

Ordered by catalogue number, the Op. 90 songs are as follows:
  • "Norden", Op. 90/1
  • "Hennes budskap", Op. 90/2
  • "Morgonen", Op. 90/3
  • "Fågelfängaren", Op. 90/4
  • "Sommarnatten", Op. 90/5
  • "Vem styrde hit din väg?", Op. 90/6
The songs were first published in 1920 by the Helsinki-based firm of. The table below provides additional information about each song: