Aino is a single-movement symphonic poem for male choir and orchestra written in 1885 by the Finnish conductor and composer Robert Kajanus. The piece tells the tragic story of the eponymous heroine fr
The young composer (c. 1880s)
The 1886 statue Aino [fi], by the Finnish sculptor Johannes Takanen [fi]
A 1905 painting of Kajanus conducting, by the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt.
The title page to the 1849 2nd edition of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic
This is a summary of the cantos of the Kalevala.
Ilmatar, Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1860
Ilmatar, Joseph Alanen [fi], 1913–1916
The Wild Duck and the Celestial Bodies, Joseph Alanen, 1919–1920, a golden eagle from Old Kalevala (1835) rather than a goldeneye
Formation of the celestial bodies and pregnant Ilmatar, a page from the unfinished Great Kalevala [fi] by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, early 20th century