Name: Ljo´ssins kno¨rr by Knut Rygnestad Piano & Vocal Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Knut Olav Rygnestad
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Ljo´ssins kno¨rr
by Knut Rygnestad Piano & Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Ljo´ssins kno¨rr

Artist Knut Rygnestad

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Knut Rygnestad Guðfinna Jónsdóttir

Also Performed By Helga Ragnars

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 5

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Knut Olav Rygnestad

Level 5

Product ID 1345586

Genre Folk Classical Contemporary

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

"Ljóssins knörr" (Knarr of Light) is a patriotic description of Iceland and its natural features, which is being watched over by a mythical "knarr", a type of Viking ship. The poem was written around the time of Iceland's emancipation from Denmark and probably took some inspiration from this.

Guðfinna Jónsdóttir (18991946) from Hömrum was an organist and poet who lived a quiet and isolated life in Northern Iceland. She wrote beautiful poems about her life, filled with with tragedies, death and unrequited love. In her own time her work wasn't well known outside of her hometown, and today she is more or less forgotten.

In collaboration with the singer Helga Ragnarsdóttir, the composer Knut Rygnestad has set several of her poems to music for voice and piano, with the aim of making them better known in Iceland and throughout the world. The project received funding from the Norwegian Arts Council and Hljóðritasjóður Rannís, and an album of nine recorded songs, "Ótal stjarna hröp", was released in 2023.

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