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Faroese National Anthem for String Orchestra by Keith Terrett String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

By Keith Terrett
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Orchestra, String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1550757

By Keith Terrett. By Petur Alberg. Arranged by Keith Terrett. This edition: audio, pdf. Historic, Multicultural, Patriotic, Praise & Worship, Traditional, World. 8 pages. Keith Terrett #1123154. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1550757).

The song was written in a work dated 1 February 1906 by Símun av Skarði, the headmaster of a high school in Føgrulið, southwest of Klaksvík. It was written during a time of strong division in the Faroe Islands between conservatives who wanted to preserve Danish rule and autonomists who wanted more self-government, of which Símun was the latter.

Violinist Petur Alberg wrote the first notes of the music of the anthem on 4 September 1907, after the melody came to him that evening. He later sang the melody down the phone in the Løgting to Símun av Skarði, who liked it. Petur then sent it to a music teacher he knew in Akureyri, Iceland, and to asked him to harmonise it for a male quartet. In October 1907, the male quartet arrangement arrived, and singers began to practice it for a Boxing Day concert in Sloan's Hall in Tórshavn. Petur, not daring to reveal the song's author, told the singers the song was Icelandic, by a certain Jón Sveinsson. However, the singers liked the song. The song was performed at the concert on 26 December 1907, which was the first time any song by Petur had been performed publicly and the first time "Tú alfagra land mítt" was performed publicly.

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