Op. 8 Ödlan
Music for Mikael Lybeck’s play with the same name. Completed in 1909; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 6th April 1910 (conducted by Jean Sibelius).

[Op. 10/11] Karelia music
Tableau music for a “lottery arranged by the Vyborg Students’ Association to promote popular education in the province of Vyborg”; overture (see orchestral works op. 10) and eight tableaux (arrangement: see orchestral works op. 11). Completed in 1893; first performance at a social evening of the Vyborg Students’ Association on 13th November 1893 (conductor: Jean Sibelius).

[Op. 25/26] Music for the Days of the Press
Tableau music for the celebrations for the Finnish Press (tableaux by Kaarlo Bergbom, texts by Eino Leino and Jalmari Finne); overture and six tableaux (revised versions: see orchestral works op. 25 and 26). Completed in 1899; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 4th November 1899 (the orchestra of Helsinki Philharmonic Society under Jean Sibelius).

[Op. 27] Kung Kristian II (King Christian II)
Music for the play under the same name by Adolf Paul: : 1. Elegie, 2. Musette, 3. Menuetto, 4. Lied des Narren: Sången om korsspindeln, 5. Nocturne, 6. Serenade, 7. Ballade. Completed in 1898. The first performance of parts 1-4 at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 24th February 1898 (conducted by Jean Sibelius); parts 5-7 were completed after this. (Arrangement for orchestra: see op. 27.)

[Op. 44] Death
Music to Arvid Järnefelt’s play with the same name; six pieces: first performance in Helsinki at the National Theatre on 2nd December 1903 (conducted by Jean Sibelius). (Revised versions: see orchestral works op. 44 and 62a.)

[Op. 45] no. 2 Musik zu einer Szene for orchestra
Completed in 1904, first performance in Helsinki on 5th March 1904 (the orchestra of Helsinki Philharmonic Society under Jean Sibelius). Piano arrangement (Tanz-Intermezzo) 1904. (See also op. 45 no. 2.)

[Op. 46] Pelléas och Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande)
Music for Maurice Maeterlinck’s play (Swedish translation by Bertel Gripenberg); overtures to each of the five acts and five other pieces. Completed in 1905; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 17th March 1905 (conducted by Jean Sibelius). (Arrangement: see orchestral works op. 46.)

[Op. 51] Belsazars gästabud (Belshazzar’s Feast)
Music for a play by Hjalmar Procopé; ten parts. Completed in 1906; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 4th November 1906 (conducted by Jean Sibelius). An arrangement of part 2b for voice and piano (Solitude) in 1939. (Arrangement: see orchestral works op. 51.)

[Op. 54] Svanevit (Swanwhite)
Music for August Strindberg’s play of the same name; horn signal and 13 parts: Completed in 1908; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 8th April 1908 (conducted by Jean Sibelius). (Arrangement: see orchestral works op. 54).

Op. 60 Trettondagsafton (The Twelfth Night)
Two songs accompanied by guitar or piano for Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night ( Swedish translation by Carl August Hagberg): 1. Kom nu hit, död (Come Away, Death!), 2. No. 2 Hållilå, uti storm och i regn (Hey, Ho, The Wind And The Rain). Completed in 1909; first performance at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 12th November 1909 (conducted by Jean Sibelius). Arrangement for voice, harp and strings of part 1 in 1957; first performance on 14th June 1957 in Helsinki (Kim Borg, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jussi Jalas).

Op. 71 Scaramouche
music for Poul Knudsen’s tragic pantomime with the same name. Completed in 1913; first performance in Copenhagen on 12th May 1922 (Det Kongelige Teater, conductor Georg Høeberg). Two piano arrangements of part of the music (Danse élégiaque and Scène d’amour) in 1914, arrangement for violin and piano (Scène d’amour) in 1925.

Op. 83 Everyman (Jedermann)
music for Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play under the same name; 16 parts. Completed in 1916; first performance in Helsinki at the National Theatre on 5th November 1916 (Helsinki City Orchestra under Robert Kajanus). Three piano arrangements of part of the music (Episodio, Scèna and Canzone) in 1925-26.

Op. 109 Stormen (The Tempest)
Music for the play by William Shakespeare (Danish translation by Edvard Lembcke); 34 parts. Completed in 1925; first performance in Copenhagen on 16th March 1926 (Det Kongelige Teater, conducted by Johan Hye-Knudsen). (Arrangement: see orchestral works op. 109, parts 1-3.)

Die Sprache der Vögel (The Language of the Birds)
Wedding procession (Hochzeitszug)
for Adolf Paul’s play Die Sprache der Vögel (The Language of the Birds). Completed in 1911.

Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower), one-act opera
libretto by Rafael Herzberg. Completed in 1896; first performance in Helsinki on 7th November 1896 (Ida Flodin, “tenor” Engström, Emmy Achté, Abraham Ojanperä; the orchestra of Helsinki Philharmonic Society under Jean Sibelius).

Näcken (The Watersprite)
Song accompanied by violin, cello and piano for a stage adaptation from Gunnar Wennerberg’s poem Runa om Necken. Completed in 1888; first performance at the Helsinki Music Institute on 9th April 1888.