Paavo Berglund
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Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund was a Finnish conductor and violinist.
The Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund (c. 1960s)
Berglund (right) with the violinist Heikki Louhivuori of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Waiting for the train to Leningrad in 1963: from left to right, intendant Aulis Sallinen, conductor Berglund, violinist Pertti Kiri
En saga
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En saga, Op. 9, is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written from 1891 to 1892 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which likely began as a septet or octet for flute, clarinet, an
Paavo Berglund
…Sibelius: From Kullervo; Kullervon valitus (with Usko Viitanen). Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. (FUGA 9240) Sibelius: En saga; The Oceanides; Pohjola's Daughter; Luonnotar (with Taru Valjakka); Pelleas et Melisande (excerpts). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. (EMI ESD7159…
The composer (c. 1891)
A 16 February 1893 ad (in Swedish) from Nya Pressen promoting the premiere of Sibelius's En saga.
Sibelius composed En saga at Robert Kajanus's request.
Italian composer, Ferruccio Busoni (c. 1911), a friend of Sibelius's who provided him with the opportunity to conduct the revised version of En saga in Berlin in 1902