Einojuhani Rautavara Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Jointly commissioned in 2011 by four choirs around the world (Netherlands, Australia, England and Sweden), this large-scale choral work sets the words of all six parts of the ordinary of the Mass (the...

As if in homage to choral history, Rautavaara's Credo from 1972 departs from chant-like beginnings, passing through homophony and polyphony towards a modern synthesis of all its elements. It is equall...

First edition of Rautavaara's early male choir work in a version for SATB choir. The composer also made some minor changes to the strictest dodecaphonic texture since expression had become more import...

According to Rautavaara it was a pity to leave the melancholy, moonlit songs of his opera Rasputin to languish within the confines of the opera. He therefore arranged the set of unabashedly sentimenta...

1. Personalia - 2. Temporalia - 3. Qualitativa - 4. Quantitativa [GCh] 1960 3' SATB(Sprechchor). UA Zürich, 1958.

A new addition to the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this carol by the leading Finnish composer of his generation was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge and first performed at A Fe...

This Christmas carol, commissioned by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle and first performed in Helsinki by Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek, is based on three texts, two by W...

Available: SATB, SSAA.

These songs have previously been published in a version for female/children's choir under the title 'Wenn sich die Welt auftut'. German translation by Ingrid Schellbach-Kopra.

The First Elegy by Einojuhani Rautavaara is an impressive work for mixed choir a cappella, based on the text of the same name from Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies". The Finnish composer set the ph...