Lemminkäinen Suite

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The Lemminkäinen Suite (also called the Four Legends) is a work written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in the early 1890s which forms his opus 22. Originally conceived as a mythological opera on a scale matching those by Richard Wagner, Sibelius later changed his musical goals and the work became an orchestral piece in four movements.

1. Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island,
2. Lemminkäinen in Tuonela,
3. The Swan of Tuonela,
4. Lemminkäinen's Return.

The above order of the movements matches their numbering within opus 22, but concert performances almost invariably transpose the order of the middle two movements.

The suite is based on characters from the Kalevala.