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artwork info
framed single-edition digital image on fine art paper
18″H x 18″W x 1″D
2024
$340
song info
category ▸ Contemporary Classical and Jazz
text ▸ Icelandic folk poetry and other traditional sources; poem by Jónas Hallgrímsson
music ▸ Jón Leifs (1947)
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Jón Leifs (1899–1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor. A fierce proponent of music education and of artists’ rights, he is credited with conducting the very first symphonic concerts in Iceland, in the summer of 1926. “Requiem, Op. 33b” is a haunting and deeply personal choral work composed in memory of his daughter Líf, who died in a swimming accident in 1947 at the age of 17. It consists of 15 short movements, each a meditation on loss, eternity or mourning. While most of the texts are taken from Icelandic folk poetry or other traditional sources, two movements are settings of poems by 19th-century Icelandic poet and naturalist Jónas Hallgrímsson.
