En Saga

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En saga (English translation: A fairy tale or A saga) is a tone poem written by the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1892 and revised in 1902. The title is in Swedish, Sibelius's mother tongue. He did not specify any story in it, but said:

"Psychologically speaking, En saga is one of my most profound works. You could almost say that it contains the whole of my youth. It is an expression of a state of mind. When I was writing En saga I went through many things that were upsetting to me. In no other of my works I have bared myself as completely as in En saga. For this reason alone all interpretations of En saga are, of course, completely foreign to me."

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  • Full score of a number of Sibelius' tone poems, including this piece
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