Six Runeberg Songs

The Six Runeberg Songs, Op. 90, is a collection of Swedish-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1917 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who composed them for his frequent collaborator, the Finnish soprano Ida Ekman. Each song is a setting of a poem by the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and of the set, "Norden" ("The North") generally is considered the best.

Constituent songs
Ordered by catalogue number, the Op. 90 songs are as follows:


 * "Norden" ("The North"), Op. 90/1
 * "Hennes budskap" ("Her Message"), Op. 90/2
 * "Morgonen" ("The Morning"), Op. 90/3
 * "Fågelfängaren" ("The Bird Catcher"), Op. 90/4
 * "Sommarnatten" ("Summer Night"), Op. 90/5
 * "Vem styrde hit din väg?" ("Who Brought You Hither?"), Op. 90/6

The songs were first published in 1920 by the Helsinki-based firm of R. E. Westerlund oy. The table below provides additional information about each song: