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English
  
Our Native Land

Language
  
Finnish

Composed
  
1918 (1918)

Catalogue
  
Op. 92

Based on
  
Poem by Kallio

Oma maa

Oma maa (My Own Land or Our Native Land, literally: Own land/country), Op. 92, is a cantata by Jean Sibelius. He composed the work on a Finnish text, a poem by Kallio which he chose himself, for mixed chorus and orchestra, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the National Chorus. Sibelius completed the cantata on 18 March 1918. Armas Maasalo conducted the first performance.

The piece was written at a time when the Red Guards, supporting the Russian administration of Finland, were losing their influence. Sibelius had been invited by the director of the national choir of Finland to contribute something for a concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the choir's establishment.

Literature

  • Tomi Mäkelä: "Jean Sibelius und seine Zeit" (German), Laaber-Verlag, Regensburg 2013
  • References

    Oma maa Wikipedia